Definition
Source: The Book of the Hundreds
In actions at law, an abatement is an overthrow of an action caused by the defendant’s pleading some matter of fact tending to impeach the correctness of the writ or declaration, which defeats the action for the present but does not debar the plaintiff from recommencing it in a better way.
Abatements are of two types, statutory and non statutory. Statutory abatements are merely a statutory implementation of the common law non-statutory abatement.
Non-statutory abatements rely on immemorial custom and usage to their authority and not on any statutory authority by a legislature.
But if issued against military powers and their courts in civil and administrative cases, the abatement has the effect of suspending all proceedings in a suit because the military powers have no standing to answer.
Executing the Process
The non-statutory abatement takes its name from the fact that it exists—not by virtue of a statute passed by some legislature—but by virtue of its customary use arising from Christian common law. Thus, the authority of the amendment does not require any legislature’s stamp of approval. When using the abatement process, one must always apply Christian discernment in all of its facets.
Recommended Reading
Download The Book of the Hundreds; it contains The Non-Statutory Abatement Handbook beginning around page 183.