Abeyance vs Postpone - What's the difference?
abeyance | postpone |
(legal) Expectancy; condition of ownership of real property being undetermined; lapse in succession of ownership of estate, or title.
Suspension; temporary suppression; dormant condition.
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(heraldry) Expectancy of a title, its right in existence but its exercise suspended.
To delay or put off an event, appointment etc.
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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 a verb postpone is
to delay or put off an event, appointment etc.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
postpone
English
Verb
(postpon)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. Oh, dear, there's so much to tell you, so many warnings to give you, but all that must be postponed for the moment.”}}
