(Lat. That the bill be quashed.) In practice . The form of the judgment for the defendant on a plea in abatement , where the action was commenced by bill, (billa.) 3 Bl. Comm. 303; Steph. PI. 128, 131. The form of an entry made by a plaintiff on the record , after a plea in abatement, where he found that the plea could not be confessed and avoided, nor traversed, nor demurred to; amounting in fact to a discontinuance of the action. 2 Archb. Pr. K. B. 3, 230; 1 Tidd, Pr. 683.
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