See also:

• ABATEMENT (derived through the French abattre, from the Late Latin battere, to beat)

ABATEMENT IN See also:

• PLEADING (Fr. plaider, plaidoyer)

PLEADING  , or plea in See also:

• ABATEMENT (derived through the French abattre, from the Late Latin battere, to beat)

abatement, was the defeating or quashing of a particular See also:

• ACTION

action by some See also:

• MATTER

matter of fact, such as a defect in See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form or the See also:

• PERSONAL

personal incompetency of the parties suing, pleaded by the See also:

• DEFENDANT

defendant . It did not involve the merits of the cause, but See also:

• LEFT

left the right of action subsisting . In criminal proceedings a plea in abatement was at one See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time a See also:

• COMMON

common practice in See also:

• ANSWER (derived from and, against, and the same root as swear)

answer to an See also:

• INDICTMENT (from Anglo-Fr. enditernent, enditer, to charge; Lat. in, against, dictare, declare)

indictment, and was set up for the purpose of defeating the indictment as framed, by alleging misnomer or other misdescription of the defendant . Its effect for this purpose was nullified by the Criminal See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

Law See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

Act 1826, which required the See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court to amend according to the truth, and the Criminal See also:

• PROCEDURE (Fr. procedure, from Lat. procedere, to go for-ward)

Procedure Act 1851, which rendered description of the defendant Unnecessary . All pleas in abatement are now abolished (R.S.C . See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

Order 21, r . 20) . See See also:

• PLEADING (Fr. plaider, plaidoyer)

PLEADING .