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Jacens
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H'reditas jacens
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Abeyance, or Abbayance
expectation, remembrance, and contemplation of law. The word abeyance has been compared to what the civilians call hereditas jacens; for, as the civilians say land and goods jacent, so the common lawyers say that things in a
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