desuetude (n.)
- abandonment
- abstention
- abstinence
- cease
- cessation
- close
- closing
- closure
- conclusion
- discontinuance
- discontinuation
- disuse
- end
- ending
- evacuation
- forsaking
- leaving
- obsolescence
- obsoleteness
- retirement
- superannuation
- withdrawal
After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude these laws are brought forth.