Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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abstention.
The act of withholding or keeping back (something or oneself). 2. A fi•deral court's relinquishment of jurisdiction when necessary to avoid needless conflict with a state's administration of its own affairs. 3. The legal principle underlying such a :relinquishment of jurisdiction. Cf. COMITY.