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Definition of Abeyance
1. Noun. Temporary cessation or suspension.
Generic synonyms: Inaction, Inactiveness, Inactivity
Specialized synonyms: Cold Storage, Deferral, Recess, Moratorium, Stand-down, Standdown
Derivative terms: Abeyant, Suspend
Definition of Abeyance
1. n. Expectancy; condition of being undetermined.
Definition of Abeyance
1. Noun. (legal) Expectancy; condition of being undetermined; undetermined ownership; lapse in succession of ownership of estate, or title. ¹
2. Noun. Suspension; temporary suppression. ¹
3. Noun. (heraldry) Expectancy of a title, its right in existence but its exercise suspended. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Abeyance
1. temporary inactivity [n -S]
Medical Definition of Abeyance
1. A state of temporary abolition of function. Origin: fr. O. Fr. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abeyance
Literary usage of Abeyance
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Constitutional History of the House of Lords by Luke Owen Pike (1894)
"and further ' that the abeyance of the said baronies was subsequently, ...
It is obvious, from the words of the resolution that both the abeyance and the ..."
2. A Treatise on the Origin and Nature of Dignities, Or Titles of Honor by William Cruise (1823)
"The barony of Willoughby de Eresby'fell into abeyance in the year 1779, ...
When the king terminates the abeyance of a dignity Modes of in favor of a person ..."
3. A Manual of Elementary Law: Being a Summary of the Well-settled Elementary by William Pinckney Fishback (1896)
"A fee-simple may be in abeyance, according to Blackstone, as where there is a
grant to John for ... The fee, therefore, is in abeyance while Richard lives. ..."
4. Systematic Arrangement of Lord Coke's First Institute of the Laws of England by John Henry Thomas, Sir Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Heneage Finch Nottingham, Edward Coke, Matthew Hale (1836)
"But the reversion and inheritance of the tail, during the life of the tenant in
tail, is in abeyance, that is to say, only in the remembrance, consideration ..."
5. A Practical and Elementary Abridgment of the Cases Argued and Determined in by Elisha Hammond, Charles Petersdorff (1831)
"But it has been held by the House of Lords in a modern case; Barony of Beaumont,
printed case, that, when a har->ny was in abeyance between two persons, ..."
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