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Abandun

Defined in 2 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Black's (1891)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

or ABANDUM. Anything sequestered, proscribed, or abandoned. Abandon, i. e., in bannum res missa, a thing banned or denounced as forfeited or lost; whence to abandon, desert, or forsake, as lost and gone. Cowell. Pasquier thinks it a coalition of a ban donner, to give up to a prescription, in which sense it signifies the ban of the empire. Wharton. ABARNARE (Lat.) To discover and disclose to a magistrate any secret crime. Leges Canuti, c. 1. ABATAMENTUM ^Lat. abata/re). An entry by interposition. Co. Litt. 277. An abatement. Yelv. 151.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

or ABANDUM. Anything sequestered, proscribed, or abandoned. Abandon, i, 2., in bannum res missa, a thing banned or denounced as forfeited or lost, whence to abandon, desert, or forsake, as lostand gone, Cowell.