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Home Dictionary Name: jacentJacent
Lying at length as the jacent posture...
Abeyance, or Abbayance
Abeyance, or Abbayance [fr. abayer, Fr., to expect, to look at anything with open mouth], in 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 similar condition are in abeyance, as the logicians term it in posse or in understanding. Thus in the case of a parson, who has an estate for life only, the fee simple of his glebe is in abeyance; and when the parsonage is void, the freehold, until a successor be appointed, is in abeyance, 2. Bl. Com. 107. Commonly used as meaning having no present owner, e.g., a peerage is said to be 'in abeyance' when there is no holder thereof....
H'reditas jacens
H'reditas jacens. An estate in Scotland is in h'reditate jacente when, after the ancestor's death, no title to it has been made up in the person of his heir, Bell's Dict....
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