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Abeyance vs. Suspension — What's the Difference?

Abeyance vs. Suspension — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Abeyance and Suspension

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Abeyance

Abeyance (from the Old French abeance meaning "gaping") is a state of expectancy in respect of property, titles or office, when the right to them is not vested in any one person, but awaits the appearance or determination of the true owner. In law, the term abeyance can be applied only to such future estates as have not yet vested or possibly may not vest.

Suspension

An interruption or temporary cessation, as of an activity or of the application of a rule or law.

Abeyance

The condition of being temporarily set aside; suspension
Held the plan in abeyance.

Suspension

A temporary prohibition or exclusion, as from attending school or enjoying a privilege, especially as a punishment.

Abeyance

(Law) A condition of undetermined ownership, as of an interest in an estate that has not yet vested.
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Suspension

A postponement, as of a judgment, opinion, or decision.

Abeyance

(legal) Expectancy; a condition when an ownership of real property is undetermined; lapse in succession of ownership of estate, or title.
The proceeds of the estate shall be held in abeyance in an escrow account until the minor reaches age twenty-one.

Suspension

The prolongation of one or more tones of a chord into a following chord to create a temporary dissonance.

Abeyance

Suspension; temporary suppression; dormant condition.

Suspension

The tone or tones so prolonged.

Abeyance

Expectancy of a noble or armigeral title, its right in existence but its exercise suspended.
The broad pennant of a commodore first class has been in abeyance since 1958, together with the rank.

Suspension

A device from which a mechanical part is suspended.

Abeyance

Expectancy; condition of being undetermined.

Suspension

The system of springs and other devices that insulates the chassis of a vehicle from shocks transmitted through the wheels.

Abeyance

Suspension; temporary suppression.
Keeping the sympathies of love and admiration in a dormant state, or state of abeyance.

Suspension

(Chemistry) A system in which minute particles are dispersed throughout a fluid from which they are easily filtered but not easily settled because of system viscosity or molecular interactions.

Abeyance

Temporary cessation or suspension

Suspension

The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.
Suspension from a hook

Suspension

A temporary or conditional delay, interruption or discontinuation.

Suspension

The state of a solid or substance produced when its particles are mixed with, but not dissolved in, a fluid, and are capable of separation by straining.

Suspension

Thus a kind of silt or sludge.

Suspension

The act of keeping a person who is listening in doubt and expectation of what is to follow.

Suspension

The temporary barring of a person from a workplace, society, etc. pending investigation into alleged misconduct.

Suspension

(education) The process of barring a student from school grounds as a form of punishment (particularly out-of-school suspension).
Suspension from school as a disciplinary measure

Suspension

(music) The act of or discord produced by prolonging one or more tones of a chord into the chord which follows, thus producing a momentary discord, suspending the concord which the ear expects.

Suspension

A stay or postponement of the execution of a sentence, usually by letters of suspension granted on application to the Lord Ordinary.

Suspension

(topology) A topological space derived from another by taking the product of the original space with an interval and collapsing each end of the product to a point.

Suspension

(topology) A function derived, in a standard way, from another, such that the instant function’s domain and codomain are suspensions of the original function’s.

Suspension

(vehicle) The system of springs and shock absorbers connected to the wheels in an automobile, which allows the vehicle to move smoothly with reduced shock to its occupants.

Suspension

The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended; pendency; as, suspension from a hook.

Suspension

Especially, temporary delay, interruption, or cessation

Suspension

A conditional withholding, interruption, or delay; as, the suspension of a payment on the performance of a condition.

Suspension

The state of a solid when its particles are mixed with, but undissolved in, a fluid, and are capable of separation by straining; also, any substance in this state.

Suspension

A keeping of the hearer in doubt and in attentive expectation of what is to follow, or of what is to be the inference or conclusion from the arguments or observations employed.

Suspension

A stay or postponement of execution of a sentence condemnatory by means of letters of suspension granted on application to the lord ordinary.

Suspension

The prolongation of one or more tones of a chord into the chord which follows, thus producing a momentary discord, suspending the concord which the ear expects. Cf. Retardation.

Suspension

A mixture in which fine particles are suspended in a fluid where they are supported by buoyancy

Suspension

A time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something

Suspension

Temporary cessation or suspension

Suspension

An interruption in the intensity or amount of something

Suspension

A mechanical system of springs or shock absorbers connecting the wheels and axles to the chassis of a wheeled vehicle

Suspension

The act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely);
There was a small ceremony for the hanging of the portrait

Suspension

A temporary debarment (from a privilege or position etc)

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