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Renounce, to give up a right. An executor who declines to take probate of the will of his testator is said to 'renounce' probate. Where any person, after 1st January, 1858, renounces probate of the will of which he is appointed executor, his right shall wholly cease, and go and devolve as if he had not been appointed-Court of Probate Act, 1857, s. 79. Whenever an executor appointed in a will survives the testator, but dies without taking probate, or an executor named in a will is cited to take probate and does not appear, his right shall cease, and go in like manner as if he had not been appointed, Court of Probate Act, 1858, s. 16.To give up or abandon formerly (a right or interest), to disclaim, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1299....
renounce
renounce re·nounced re·nounc·ing vt 1 : to announce one's abandonment or giving up of a right to or interest in : disclaim [ an inheritance] 2 : to refuse to follow, obey, or recognize any further [ allegiance to one's country] vi : to make a renunciation ...
Renounce
To declare against to reject or decline formally to refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one to disclaim as to renounce a title to land or to a throne...
Renouncer
One who renounces...
Abjuration
Abjuration, means a renouncing by oath, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 5.Abjuration [fr. abjuro, Lat.], a forswearing or renouncing by oath. To abjure is to retract, recant or abnegate a position on oath. 'Abjuration of the realm,' in the old law, signified an oath taken by a person accused of crime who had claimed sanctuary (see that tile) to forsake the realm for ever. It was abolished by 12 Jac. 1, c. 28.The oath of abjuration (introduced by 13 Wm. 3, c. 16, and altered by 6 Geo. 3, c. 53) had to be taken by every person entering upon any public office or trust. By this he renounced the Pretender (the son of James II.) and recognized the right of Her Majesty, under the Act of Settlement (q.v.), engaging to support her, and promising to disclose all treasons and traitorous conspiracies against her, Staunforde Pl. C. b. 2, c. 40. By 21 & 22 Vict. C. 48, one form of oath was substituted for the oaths of allegiance, supremacy, and abjuration. For this form another was substituted by...
abjure
abjure ab·jured ab·jur·ing [Latin abjurare, from ab- off + jurare to swear] : renounce ;specif : to disclaim formally or renounce upon oath [solemnly s his allegiance to his former country] ab·ju·ra·tion [ab-jə-rā-shən] n ...
forswear
forswear -swore [-swōr] -sworn [-swōrn] -swear·ing vt 1 : to reject, renounce, or deny under oath 2 : to renounce earnestly vi : to swear falsely : commit false swearing ...
recant
recant : to renounce or withdraw (prior statements or testimony) [surprised the prosecution by ing statements made earlier to the police] vi : to renounce or withdraw prior statements or testimony re·can·ta·tion [rē-kan-tā-shən] n ...
defy
To renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance faith or obligation with to reject refuse or renounce...
Forswear
To reject or renounce upon oath hence to renounce earnestly determinedly or with protestations...
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