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Abatement Defined

Sometimes called "fresh abatement", or in some towns "fresh force", this was a crime of recent unlawful intrusion (sometimes by force – in which case the term hamsoken, or housebreaking, is applied) into a property in order to gain physical possession thereof; this sort of thing might occur, for example, when the owner died and there was a dispute over who inherited. The assize of abatement was a legal action to recover possession; it was the borough equivalent of novel disseisin, although its emphasis was on quick remedy (no essoins were allowed). Consequently the concern of the court was less with who had rightful title to a property than with whether an occupant had been dispossessed; thus the rightful owner, if seizing a property from its tenant for (for example) non-payment of rent, without going through due process of law (initiated by writ), could be obliged to restore the property to the tenant. The object was to restore the status quo and thereby oblige a claimant to seek his rights through the courts, which involved obtaining a writ from the king.

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