Definizione monolingua

abeyance

abeyance (plural abeyances)

1. (law) Expectancy; condition of being undetermined.

   The proceeds of the estate shall be held in abeyance in an escrow account until the minor reaches age twenty-one.

   When there is no person in existence in whom an inheritance (or a dignity) can vest, it is said to be in abeyance. -Blackstone

2. Suspension; temporary suppression.
   • 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA 2003, p. 376:

     Without a plausible explanation for what might have provoked an ice age, the whole theory fell into abeyance.

3. (heraldry) Expectancy of a title, its right in existence but its exercise suspended.

   The broad pennant of a commodore first class has been in abeyance since 1958, together with the rank.

Definizione dizionario abeyance

	in sospeso
	A tempory cessation or suspension of an ongoing activity.

disuso

sospensione

Altri significati:

expectancy; condition of being undetermined

Suspension; temporary suppression.

suspension; temporary suppression

heraldry: expectancy of a title

(heraldry) Expectancy of a title, its right in existence but its exercise suspended.

(law) Expectancy; condition of being undetermined.