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Definition of Abandonment

1. Noun. The act of giving something up.

2. Noun. Withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility. "His abandonment of his wife and children left them penniless"

3. Noun. The voluntary surrender of property (or a right to property) without attempting to reclaim it or give it away.

Definition of Abandonment

1. n. The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.

Definition of Abandonment

1. Noun. The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment. ¹

2. Noun. (context: maritime legal) The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against. ¹

3. Noun. (context: legal) The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege; relinquishment of right to secure a patent by an inventor; relinquishment of copyright by an author; ¹

4. Noun. (context: legal) The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband or child; desertion. ¹

5. Noun. The cessation of service on a particular segment of the lines of a common carrier. ¹

6. Noun. A refusal to receive freight so damaged in transit as to be worthless and render carrier liable for its value. ¹

7. Noun. (rare) Careless freedom or ease; abandon. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Abandonment

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Abandonment

abandoned child syndrome abandoned infant abandoned person abandoned properties abandoned property abandoned ship abandonedly abandonedness abandonee abandonees

abandoner abandoners abandoning abandonings abandonly abandonment (current term) abandonments abandons abandonware abands

abandum abanet abanga abangas abannation abannations abannition abanoquil abapical abapical pole

Literary usage of Abandonment

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
""Sixth: If the jury find that the insurers, upon receiving notice of the abandonment from the owners, sent a rescuing expedition for the purpose of rescuing ..."

2. A System of the Law of Marine Insurances: With Three Chapters, on Bottomry by James Allan Park (1817)
"(a) And therefore the general convenience of making an abandonment has Ie<l to an opinion that it is more necessary than it really is. ..."

3. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent (1873)
"son (6) left the law on the subject of abandonment exactly where those cases had placed it. (c) The French Ordinance of the Marine ..."

4. Marine Insurance: Its Principles and Practice by William David Winter (1919)
"It will be observed that in an abandonment case the assignment dates from the time of loss and the only property transferred by such assignment is the ..."

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