For Abatement we have terms and definitions in 15 topics. The topics are Accounting, Accounting Terms, Air Quality, Atmospheric Chemistry, Canadian Law, Commercial Real Estate, Environment, Fish, Heraldry, Logistics, Medieval Towns, Paint, Real Estate, Sanitation and William Shakespeare.

Abatement (Accounting)

in generalis the reduction or lessening. In lawit is the termination or suspension of a lawsuit. For examplean abatement of taxes is a tax decrease or rebate.

Abatement (Accounting Terms)

Complete removal of an amount due, (usually referring to a tax abatement a penalty abatement or an interest abatement within a governing agency.)

Abatement (Air Quality)

The reduction in degree or intensity, or elimination, of pollution

Abatement (Atmospheric Chemistry)

To lower, depreciate, or reduce. Often refers to emission reductions in air quality control. [Survey of Current Business; v74n5; pages 36-49; 1994.] [Journal of Environmental Economics and Management; v27n1; pages 38-48; 1994.]

Abatement (Canadian Law)

A reduction in some amount that is owed, usually granted by the person to whom the debt is owed. For example, a landlord might grant an abatement in rent. In estate law, the word may refer more specifically to a situation where property identified in a will cannot be given to the beneficiary because it had to be sold to pay off the deceased debts. Debts are paid before gifts made in wills are distributed and where a specific gift has to be sold to pay off a debt, it is said to "abate" (compare with " ademption").

Abatement (Commercial Real Estate)

Is a reduction or decrease. Usually referred to in terms of rent or other increases.

Abatement (Environment)

Reducing the degree or intensity of, or eliminating, pollution.

Abatement (Fish)

Reducing the degree or intensity of, or eliminating, pollution.

Abatement (Heraldry)

Abatements are real or imaginary marks of disgrace affixed to an escutcheon on account of some flagrantly dishonorable action on the part of the bearer. There is scarcely an instance on record, however, of such marks of disgrace having been actually affixed to an escutcheon. (Some times called rebatements.)

Abatement (Logistics)

A discount allowed for damage or overcharge in the payment of a bill.

Abatement (Medieval Towns)

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.

Abatement (Paint)

Involves either removal of the painted surface, covering the painted surface with an impermeable surface, or covering surface with heavy-duty coating (encapsulant).

Abatement (Real Estate)

Often referred to as free rent or early occupancy and may occur outside or in addition to the primary term of the lease

Abatement (Sanitation)

The act of diminishing. In wastewater technology, reducing water pollution either by controls on sources of pollution or by treatment of polluted waters. An enforcement action stopping a polluting discharge.

Abatement (William Shakespeare)

Reduction, diminution.

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