Meanings (ES + gloss)
esperanza • expectativa • suspenso
Expectancy; a condition when an ownership of real property is undetermined; lapse in succession of ownership of estate, or title.
The proceeds of the estate shall be held in abeyance in an escrow account until the minor reaches age twenty-one.
Yet sometimes the fee may be in abeyance, that is (as the word signifies) in expectation, remembrance, and contemplation in law; there being no person in esse, in whom it can vest…
desuso • suspensión • suspenso
Suspension; temporary suppression; dormant condition.
Without a plausible explanation for what might have provoked an ice age, the whole theory fell into abeyance.
[...] Prosser was instrumental in the decision in 2010 to recommence publication of an annual health and safety report, following a period when it had fallen into abeyance.
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