abeyance
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Noun — Expectancy; a condition when an ownership of real property is undetermined; lapse in succession of ownership of estate, or title.
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Etymology
First attested in 1528. From Anglo-Norman abeiance (“legal expectation”), from Old French abeance (“desire”) from abeër (“to gape at, aspire after”), abaer, abair (“to desire”), from a (“to”) + baër (“to gape”), bair (“yawn”), from Medieval Latin batō (“to yawn”).
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