Suspense
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
A temporal stop, or hanging up, as it were, of a man's right, for unity of possession of the rent, &c., and the land out of which it issues, is not in esse for a certain time, hut may be revived or awaked. And it differs from extinguishment, whicli is when it dies or is gone for ever.
Jacob.