DISCONTINUANCE - A chasm or interruption in the pleading.
It is a rule that every pleading must be an answer to the whole of what is adversly alleged.
Discontinuance: The failure of a plaintiff to continue to press the suit. As a consequence, the case is dismissed.
DISCONTINUANCE -- The termination of a civil case by withdrawal or failure to continue it by the plaintiff. A voluntary dismissal by the plaintiff.
Discontinuance
Definition - Noun
1 : the usu. voluntary termination of an action by a plaintiff by motion or by failure to pursue the claim
2 : the abandonment of a property or of a particular use of the property under the zoning laws ...
Expanded Legal Definition of DisclaimerDiscontinuance A formal notice filed with the Court and served on the defendant, ending active litigation.
ABANDONMENT OF AN ACTION is the discontinuance of proceedings commenced in the High Court of Justice either because the plaintiff is convinced that he will not succeed in his action or for other reasons.
Such an abandonment involves the discontinuance of proceedings commenced in the High Court, typically emerging because a plaintiff is convinced that he will not succeed in a civil action.
Several different contexts are covered by this term with variable meanings, like plaintiff's discontinuance of proceedings (in cases of abandonment of an legal action), surrender of a ship or goods to the insurer (in cases of marine insurance), ...
277; so that this includes, as well, an abatement, an intrusion, a disseisin, or a discontinuance, as any other species of wrong whatsoever, by which the owner of the freehold is kept out of possession.
 See also: Continuance, Law, Action, Attorney, Cause
  
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