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abeyance 音標拼音: [əb'eəns] n. 中止,暫擱,停止 中止,暫擱,停止 abeyance n 1: temporary cessation or suspension [ synonym: { abeyance}, { suspension}] Abeyance \ A* bey" ance\, n. [ OF. abeance expectation, longing; a ( L. ad) baer, beer, to gape, to look with open mouth, to expect, F. bayer, LL. badare to gape.] 1. ( Law) Expectancy; condition of being undetermined. [ 1913 Webster] Note: When there is no person in existence in whom an inheritance ( or a dignity) can vest, it is said to be in abeyance, that is, in expectation; the law considering it as always potentially existing, and ready to vest whenever a proper owner appears. -- Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Suspension; temporary suppression. [ 1913 Webster] Keeping the sympathies of love and admiration in a dormant state, or state of abeyance. -- De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster] 68 Moby Thesaurus words for " abeyance": abandonment, abjuration, abjurement, apathy, break, caesura, catalepsy, catatonia, cease- fire, cessation, cold storage, day off, deadliness, deathliness, desistance, discontinuance, doldrums, dormancy, drop, entropy, forbearance, hesitation, holiday, indifference, indolence, inertia, inertness, interim, interlude, intermezzo, intermission, intermittence, interruption, interval, languor, lapse, latency, layoff, letup, lotus- eating, lull, nonexercise, passiveness, passivity, pause, quiescence, quiescency, recess, relinquishment, remission, renouncement, renunciation, resignation, respite, rest, stagnancy, stagnation, stand- down, stasis, stay, suspense, suspension, torpor, truce, vacation, vegetation, vis inertiae, waiverABEYANCE, estates, from the French aboyer, which in figurative sense meansto expect, to look for, to desire. When there is no person in esse in whomthe freehold is vested, it is said to be in abeyance, that is, inexpectation, remembrance and contemplation. 2. The law requires, however, that the freehold should never, ifpossible, be in abeyance. Where there is a tenant of the freehold, theremainder or reversion in fee may exist for a time without any particularowner, in which case it is said to be in abeyance. 9 Serg. & R.. 367; 8Plowd. 29 a. b 35 a. 3. Thus, if sn estate be limited to A for life, remainder to the rightheirs of B, the fee simple is in abeyance during the life of B, because itis a maxim of law, that nemo est hoeres viventis. 2 Bl. Com. 107; 1 Cruise, 67- 70; 1 Inst. 842, Merlin, Repertoire, mot Abeyance; 1 Com. Dig. 176; 1Vin. Abr. 101. 4. Another example may be given in the case of a corporation. When acharter is given, and the charter grants franchises or property to acorporation which is to be brought into existence by some future acts of thecorporators, such franchises or property are in abeyance until such actsshall be done, and when the corporation is thereby brought into life, thefranchises instantaneously attach. 4 Wheat. 691. See, generally, 2 Mass. 500; 7 Mass. 445; 10 Mass. 93; 15 Mass. 464; 9 Cranch, 47. 293; 5 Mass. 555. |
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