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Adjudication contra h'reditatem jacentem

Adjudication contra h'reditatem jacentem. When a debtor's heir apparent renounces the succession, any creditor may obtain a decree cognitionis causa,

Gymnosophist

who went almost naked denied themselves the use of flesh renounced bodily pleasures and employed themselves in the contemplation of nature

Abdicate

Abdicate [fr. abdico, Lat.], to renounce or refuse anything, Termes de la Ley. In the civil

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Disclaimer

One who disclaims disowns or renounces

abandon

duty or responsibility to [ one's child] 3 : to renounce one's obligations and rights under [ a contract] 4 :

country of citizenship

country in which a person is born (and has not renounced or lost citizenship) or naturalized and to which that person

demise

by lease, from Old French, to put down, give up, renounce, from Latin demittere to let fall and dimittere to release]

expatriate

(oneself) from allegiance to one's native country vi : to renounce allegiance to one's country and abandon one's nationality voluntarily ex·pa·tri·ate

renunciation

renunciation : the act or practice of renouncing ;specif : the act of refusing to continue to acknowledge,

succession

of which the heirs are unknown, or that has been renounced by all of the heirs 4 a : the continuance

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