Legal Term: DISCONTINUANCE

Definition: estates. An alienation made or suffered by the tenant in tail, or other tenant seised in autre droit, by which the issue in, tail, or heir or successor, or those in reversion or remainder, are driven to their action, and cannot enter. 2. The term discontinuance is used to distinguish those cases where the party whose freehold is ousted, can restore it only by action, from those in which he ma restore it by entry. Co. Litt. 325 a 3 Bl. Com. 171, Ad. Ej. 35 to 41, Com. Dig. h. t., Bac. Ab. h. t., Vin. Ab. h. t., Cruises Dig. Index, b.. t..5 2 Saund. Index, h. t.

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