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Moratorium vs Abeyance - What's the difference?

moratorium | abeyance |

As nouns the difference between moratorium and abeyance

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

moratorium

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (legal) An authorization to a debtor, permitting temporary suspension of payments.
  • A suspension of an ongoing activity.
    • Canada may put a moratorium on cloning for research.
  • * 1990 , Gerhard Falk, Murder, an Analysis of its Forms, Conditions, and Causes , McFarland.
    • It so happened that at that time the moratorium on the death penalty caused by the Supreme Court decision in the Furman case was still in effect.

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    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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