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TO ABRIDGE, practice. To make shorter in words, so as to retain the sense or substance. In law it signifies particularly the making of a declaration orcount shorter, by taking or severing away some of the substance from it.Brook, tit. Abridgment; Com. Dig. Abridgment; 1 Vin. Ab. 109. 2. Abridgment of the Plaint is allowed even after verdict and beforejudgment (Booth on R. A.) in an cases of real actions where the writ is delib. ten. generally, as in assize, dower; &c.; because, after the abridgmentthe writ is still true, it being liberum tenementum still. But it is notallowed in a proecipe quod reddat, demanding a certain number of acres; forthis would falsify the writ. See 2 Saund. 44, (n.) 4 ; Bro. Abr. Tit. Abr.;12 Levin's Ent. 76; 2 Saund. 330; Gilb. C. P. 249-253; Thel. Dig. 76, c. 28,pl. 15, lib. 8.

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