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• ABEYANCE (O. Fr. abeance, " gaping")

ABEYANCE (O. Fr. abeance, " gaping")  , a See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state of expectancy in respect of See also:

• PROPERTY

property, titles or See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office, when the right to them is not vested in any one See also:

• PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person, but awaits the See also:

• APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance or determination of the true owner . In See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law, the See also:

• TERM

term See also:

• ABEYANCE (O. Fr. abeance, " gaping")

abeyance can only be applied to such future estates as have not yet vested or possibly may not vest . For example, an See also:

• ESTATE (through O. Fr. estat, mod. flat, from Lat. status, state, condition, position, stare, to stand)

estate is granted to A for See also:

• LIFE

life, with See also:

• REMAINDER, REVERSION

remainder to the See also:

• HEIR (Lat. heres, from a root meaning to grasp, seen in heres or erus, master of a house, Gr. xeip, hand, Sans. hat ana, hand)

heir of B, the latter being alive; the remainder is then said to be in abeyance, for until the See also:

• DEATH

death of B it is uncertain who his heir is . Similarly the See also:

• FREEHOLD

freehold of a See also:

• BENEFICE (Lat. beneficium, benefit)

benefice, on the death of the See also:

• INCUMBENT (from Lat. incumbere, to lean, lie upon)

incumbent, is said to be in abeyance until the next incumbent takes See also:

• POSSESSION
• POSSESSION (Lat. possessio, possidere, to possess)

possession . The most See also:

• COMMON

common use of the term is in the See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case of See also:

• PEERAGE
• PEERAGE (Fr. pairage, med. Lat. paragium; M.E. Pere, 0. Fr. per, peer, later pair; Lat. Paris, " equal ")

peerage dignities . If a peerage which passes to heirs-See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general, like the See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient baronies by See also:

• WRIT (O. Eng. gewrit, writ, from writan, to write)

writ, is held by a See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man whose heir-at-law is neither a male, nor a woman who is an only See also:

• CHILD
• CHILD, FRANCIS JAMES (1825-1896)
• CHILD, L
• CHILD, LYDIA MARIA (1802-1880)
• CHILD, SIR FRANCIS (1642-1713)
• CHILD, SIR JOHN (d. 1690)
• CHILD, SIR JOSIAH (163o - 1699)

child, it goes into abeyance on his death between two or more sisters or their heirs, and is held by no one till the abeyance is terminated; if eventually only one person represents the claims of all the sisters, he or she can claim the termination of the abeyance as a See also:

• MATTER

matter of right . The See also:

• CROWN

crown can also See also:

• CALL (from Anglo-Saxon ceallian, a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch kallen, to talk or chatter)

call the peerage out of abeyance at any moment, on See also:

• PETITION (Lat. for " seeking " or " praying ")

petition, in favour of any one of the sisters or their heirs between whom it is in abeyance . The question whether ancient earldoms created in favour of a man and his " heirs " go into abeyance like baronies by writ has been raised by the claim to the earldom of See also:

• NORFOLK
• NORFOLK, EARLS AND DUKES OF

Norfolk created in 1312, discussed before the See also:

• COMMITTEE (from commute, an Anglo-Fr. past participle of commettre, Lat. committere, to entrust; the modern Fr. equivalent comite is derived from the Eng.)

Committee for Privileges in 1906 . It is common, but incorrect, to speak of peerage dignities which are dormant (i.e. unclaimed) as being in abeyance . (J . H .