Abeyance vs Dormant - What's the difference?
abeyance | dormant |
(legal) Expectancy; condition of ownership of real property being undetermined; lapse in succession of ownership of estate, or title.
Suspension; temporary suppression; dormant condition.
* 2003 , (Bill Bryson), A Short History of Nearly Everything , BCA 2003, page 376:
(heraldry) Expectancy of a title, its right in existence but its exercise suspended.
Inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.
* Burke
(heraldry) In a sleeping posture; distinguished from couchant.
In heraldry|lang=en terms the difference between abeyance and dormant
is that abeyance is (heraldry) expectancy of a title, its right in existence but its exercise suspended while dormant is (heraldry) in a sleeping posture; distinguished from couchant.As a noun abeyance
is (legal) expectancy; condition of ownership of real property being undetermined; lapse in succession of ownership of estate, or title .As an adjective dormant is
inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.abeyance
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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
- Without a plausible explanation for what might have provoked an ice age, the whole theory fell into abeyance .
- The broad pennant of a commodore first class has been in abeyance since 1958, together with the rank.
References
dormant
English
Alternative forms
* dormaunt (obsolete)Adjective
(-)- Grass goes dormant during the winter, waiting for spring before it grows again.
- The bank account was dormant ; there had been no transactions in months.
- This volcano is dormant but not extinct.
- It is by lying dormant a long time, or being very rarely exercised, that arbitrary power steals upon a people.
- a lion dormant
