• (n.) The withdrawing, or open renunciation, of a suit in court by the plaintiff, by which he forever lost his right of action.
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Re·trax'it noun [ Latin , (he) has withdrawn. See
Retract .]
(O. Eng. Law) The withdrawing, or open renunciation, of a suit in court by the plaintiff, by which he forever lost his right of action.
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The act by which a plaintiff withdraws his suit; it is so called from the fact that this was the principal word used when the law entries were in Latin. A retraxit differs from a nonsuit, the former being the act of the plain-tiff himself, for it cannot even be entered by attorney and it must be after declaration filed while the latter occurs in .....
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