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Definition of Abeyances
1. abeyance [n] - See also: abeyance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abeyances
Literary usage of Abeyances
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books ; with an Analysis of the by Sir William Blackstone, John Eykyn Hovenden, Archer Ryland (1836)
"abeyances are not allowed but where the original creation of estates requires
them, or where the consequences of estates do in congruity require them. ..."
2. The Reports of that Reverend and Learned Judge, Sir Henry Hobart, Knight and by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, John Mason Williams, Henry Hobart (1829)
"And therefore there is no cause to frame abeyances needless and in vain, ...
abeyances are not allowed but where the original creation of estates requires ..."
3. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1860)
"... the mental activity of any period, the retroaction of material and moral
interests ; the rise, temporary abeyances, and revival of any subject ; as of ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1858)
"All are held through female descents, and some by termination of abeyances in
favor of co-heirs. In several of them the succession has come through three ..."
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