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Abeyance vs Cessation - What's the difference?

abeyance | Cessation |

As nouns the difference between abeyance and Cessation

is that abeyance is (legal) expectancy; condition of ownership of real property being undetermined; lapse in succession of ownership of estate, or title while Cessation is (formal) a ceasing or discontinuance, as of action, whether temporary or final.

abeyance

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (legal) Expectancy; condition of ownership of real property being 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.
    When there is no person in existence in whom an inheritance (or a dignity) can vest, it is said to be in abeyance . -Blackstone
  • Suspension; temporary suppression; dormant condition.
  • * 2003 , (Bill Bryson), A Short History of Nearly Everything , BCA 2003, page 376:
    • Without a plausible explanation for what might have provoked an ice age, the whole theory fell into abeyance .
  • (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.

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    Cessation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (formal) A ceasing or discontinuance, as of action, whether temporary or final.
  • * Motley
    • the temporary cessation of the papal iniquities
  • * Sir J. Hayward
    • The day was yearly observed for a festival by cessation from labour.

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