abator

British

/ əˈbeɪtə /

noun

law a person who effects an abatement

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abator

But our most Court received Poets saies, That painting is pure chastities abator.

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3 by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen

So a disseisor, abator, intruder, or the lord by escheat, &c., shall have them as things annexed to the land.

From The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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