extinguishment (ekstinggwishment)

[ extorter Divine laws of Christian church polity may not be altered by extinguishment. Hooker, Eccles. Polity. He moved him to a war upon Flanders, for the better extinguishment of the civil wars of France. Bacon . For when Death's form appears, she feareth not An utter quenching or extinguishment . Sir J. Davies, Immortal. of Soul, xxx. The reasons for persevering in the extinguishment of the financial obligations of the Civil War are innumerable. N. A. Rev. , CXLIII. 209. 2. In law, the extinction or annihilation of a right, an estate, etc., by merging or consolidating it with another, generally with one greater or more extensive. Extinguishment is of various natures as applied to various rights: as, extinguishment of estates, commons, copyholds, debts, liberties, services, and ways. These releases may enure. By way of extinguish ment : as, if my tenant for life makes a lease to A for life, remainder to B and his heirs, and I release to A, this extinguishes my right to the reversion. Black stone , Com., II. xx.