| 单词 | abatement |
| 释义 | abatement abatement interruption of legal proceedings on a plea from the defendant to a matter that prevented the plaintiff from proceeding at that time or in that form (e.g. objections to the mode and time of the plaintiff's claim).Civil proceedings are not abated by reasons of the marriage, death or bankruptcy of a party if the cause of action survives or continues. Criminal proceedings are not abated by the death of the prosecutor (or the sovereign) but they are by the death of the accused or, if the accused is a COMPANY, by the winding up of the company. A NUISANCE is abated when it is stopped. By statute, abatement notices may be served in respect of certain nuisances by local author- ities: Environmental Protection Act 1990. |
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