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abeyance
(law) Expectancy; a condition when an ownership of real property is undetermined; lapse in succession of ownership of estate, or title.
Suspension; temporary suppression; dormant condition.
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His Tory and High-Church principles were kept up by some occasional exercise at elections and quarter-sessions; but those respecting hereditary right were fallen into a sort of abeyance.
Expectancy of a noble or armigeral title, its right in existence but its exercise suspended.