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1. plea in bar : a plea that seeks to defeat the plaintiff’s action completely and permanently 2. plea in abatement : a plea that objects to the place, time, or method of asserting the plaintiff’s claim but does not dispute the claim’s merits; a defendant who successfully asserts a plea in abatement leaves the claim open for continuation in the current action or reassertion in a later action if the defect is cured <[non-joinder is] a plea in abatement by which it is alleged that the plaintiff has omitted to join in the action all the persons who ought to be parties to it – JBS>
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