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Adjourned vs Abeyance - What's the difference?

adjourned | abeyance |

As a verb adjourned

is (adjourn).

As a noun abeyance is

(legal) expectancy; condition of ownership of real property being undetermined; lapse in succession of ownership of estate, or title .

adjourned

English

Verb

(head)
  • (adjourn)

    • adjourn

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To postpone.
    • The trial was adjourned for a week.
  • To defer; to put off temporarily or indefinitely.
  • * Barrow
    • It is a common practice to adjourn the reformation of their lives to a further time.
  • To end or suspend an event.
    • The court will adjourn for lunch.
  • (intransitive, formal, uncommon) To move from one place to another.
    • After the dinner, we will adjourn to the bar.

    See also

    * adjournment

    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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