Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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discontinuance
n. 1. The termination of a lawsuit by the plaintiff; a voluntary dismissal or nonsuit. See DISMISSAL; NONSUIT. 2. The termination of an estate-tail by a tenant in tail who conveys a larger estate in the land than is legally allowed.Such is . . . the injury of discontinuance; which happens when he who hath an estate-tail, maketh a larger estate of the land than by law he is entitled to do: in which case the estate is good, so far as his power extends who made it, but no farther. As i
voluntary discontinuance
See NONSUIT