I am taking Media Law and Ethics this semester and since I am by no means a law student, I am using my dictionary more than ever. A lot of these posts are going to be legal terms. It makes me wonder why the legal word has to have a completely different language apart from the "civilians" language. So here it is.
Abatement:
read in: Near v. Minnesota, 283 U.S. 697 (1931)
Chapter 285 of the Session Laws of Minnesota for the year 1925 provides for the abatement, as a public nuisance, of a “malicious, scandalous, and defamatory newspaper, magazine, or other periodical.”
definition: abatement: (noun) (often in legal use): the ending, reduction, or lessening of something
Example: The administration could do nothing to cause the abatement of noise at the student rally against budget cuts.
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