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(Fr. a66a2/er, to expect). In expectation, remembrance, and contemplation of law ; the condition of a freehold when there is no person in being in whom it is vested. In such cases, the freehold has been said to be in nubibus (in the clouds), and in gremio legis (in the bosom of the law). It has been denied by some that there is such a thing as an estate in abeyance. Fearne, Cont. Rem. 513. See, also, the note to 2 Sharswood, Bl. Comm. 107.
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(Fr. a66a2/er, to expect). In expectation, remembrance, and contemplation of law ; the condition of a freehold when there is no person in being in whom it is vested. In such cases, the freehold has been said to be in nubibus (in the clouds), and in gremio legis (in the bosom of the law). It has been denied by some that there is such a thing as an estate in abeyance. Fearne, Cont. Rem. 513. See, also, the note to 2 Sharswood, Bl. Comm. 107.
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A condition in which the ownership of real property (in U.S. law) or personal property (in U.S. law) is undetermined; a state of affairs being incomplete or undetermined.
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DUI bill clarifies the use of ‘pleas in abeyance’, Deseret News (Salt Lake City); January 30, 2004; Lucinda Dillon Kinkead Deseret Morning News
FERC ISSUES ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO HOLD PROCEEDINGS IN ABEYANCE ON EXPEDITED BASIS, US Fed News Service, Including US State News; May 27, 2010
Ferc Issues Order to Mississippi Power for Continuing to Hold Settlement Proceedings in Abeyance and Waiving Period for Answers, US Fed News Service, Including US State News; September 6, 2012
FERC ISSUES ORDER OF CHIEF JUDGE GRANTING MOTION TO HOLD PROCEDURAL SCHEDULE IN ABEYANCE, US Fed News Service, Including US State News; April 17, 2010
FERC ISSUES ORDER ACCEPTING, SUSPENDING TARIFFS, SUBJECT TO REFUND, CONSOLIDATING PROCEEDINGS FOR HEARING, SETTLEMENT JUDGE PROCEDURES, HOLDING PROCEDURES IN ABEYANCE, US Fed News Service, Including US State News; July 14, 2009
FERC ISSUES ORDER DENYING REQUEST TO HOLD PROCEDURAL SCHEDULE IN ABEYANCE AND SCHEDULING ORAL ARGUMENT, US Fed News Service, Including US State News; January 27, 2009
FERC ISSUES ORDER TO EXXONMOBIL OIL, ET AL. ON HOLDING COMPLAINT IN ABEYANCE AND CONSOLIDATING PROCEEDINGS, US Fed News Service, Including US State News; September 4, 2007
FERC ISSUES ORDER TO UNOCAL PIPELINE ET AL FOR ACCEPTING AND SUSPENDING TARIFF, SUBJECT TO REFUND, CONSOLIDATING PROCEEDINGS, AND HOLDING IN ABEYANCE, US Fed News Service, Including US State News; August 31, 2011
Wipo Publishes Patent of Flowserve Management, James D. Saucerman, Lionel A. Young, Ronald L. Grace, John Davis and David Zegres for “Abeyance Seal for High Temperature, High Pressure Applications” (American Inventors), US Fed News Service, Including US State News; October 18, 2013
FERC ISSUES ORDER TO CITY AND BOROUGH OF SITKA ELECTRIC DEPARTMENT, ALASKA REGARDING LETTER GRANTING REQUEST FOR ABEYANCE, US Fed News Service, Including US State News; July 13, 2007
July 26 notification held in abeyance., The Nation (Karachi, Pakistan); August 5, 2008
2 Transfer Notifications Held in Abeyance, The Nation (Karachi, Pakistan); April 14, 2011
Punjab Holds 144 EDO Posts in Abeyance, The Nation (Karachi, Pakistan); February 24, 2011
Dinakaran’s elevation to SC kept in ‘ abeyance’., Mail Today (New Delhi, India); December 19, 2009
Mcc Wants Govt to Keep Vat in Abeyance, Hindustan Times (New Delhi, India); August 18, 2005
ESB Group of Unions may be placed in ‘abeyance’, The Irish Times; February 12, 2005
FERC ISSUES NOTICE REGARDING SCHEDULING ORAL ARGUMENT/HOLDING PROCEDURAL SCHEDULE PARTIALLY IN ABEYANCE, US Fed News Service, Including US State News; November 22, 2009
FERC ISSUES ORDER OF CHIEF JUDGE HOLDING APPOINTMENT OF SETTLEMENT JUDGE IN ABEYANCE PENDING COMMISSION ACTION ON MOTION TO STAY SETTLEMENT JUDGE PROCEDURES REGARDING TENNESSEE GAS PIPELINE, US Fed News Service, Including US State News; November 20, 2008
FERC ISSUES ORDER HOLDING RULING ON JOINT MOTION FOR SUMMARY DISPOSITION IN ABEYANCE PENDING ISSUANCE OF INITIAL DECISION, US Fed News Service, Including US State News; February 13, 2009
Abeyance.(POETRY)(Poem), Interim; January 1, 2010; Nelson, Rachael
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