Abide

To accept the consequences of; to rest satisfied with. To abide by an order, judgment, or decree of a court, is to conform to, to execute. Taylor v. Hughes, (Me.) 4 Greenl. 433; Hodge v. Hodgdon, 8 Cush. (Mass.) 294; Jackson v. State, 30 Kan. 88, Pac. 317; Petition of Griswold, 13 R. I. 125. Where a statute provides for a recognizance "to abide the judgment of the court," one conditioned "to await the action of the court" is not sufficient; Wilson v. State, 7 App. 38. To abide by an award. To await the award without revoking the submission. It does not mean to "acquiesce in" or "not dispute," in the sense of not being at liberty to contest the validity of the award when made; Hunt v. Wilson, 6 N. H. 36; Quimby v. Melvin, 35 N. H. 198; Marshall v. Reed, 48 N. H. 36, 40. To abide the decision. An agreement in a cause of partition "to abide the decision" of a suit in equity involving the title to the same lands did not mean to postpone the former suit until a final decree in the latter, but only that the partition should be in accordance with the title as determined by it; Hodges v. Pingree, 108 Mass. To abide and satisfy is used to express the execution or performance of a judgment or order by carrying it into complete effect; Erickson v. Eider, 34 Minn. 371, 25 N. W. 804.

To “abide the order of the court” means to perform, execute, or coniorm to such order. 8 Cush. 297; 7 Tex. App. 38; 108 Mass. 585. A stipulation in an arbitration bond that the parties shall “abide by” the award of the arbitrators means only that they shall await the award of the arbitrators, without revoking the submission, and not that they shall acquiesce in the award when made. 6N.H. 162; 48 N. H. 40. ©

To await; as, in saying that costs abide the event of the suit. Abide by. To conform to, obey. " To abide by an award " is to stand by the determination of the arbitrators, and take the consequences of the award; to await the award without revoking the submission; not, necessarily, to acquiesce in, or not to dispute the award.ii The language employed in arbitration bonds, " to abide by the award," is to prevent the revocation or breaking of the contract of submission, rather than to apply to the actual finding of the arbitrators.''' In a bond " to appear and abide the order of the court," means to perform, to execute, to conform to, such order. An obligation to appear and abide the final order anU judgment (in force through the entire ' Frantz v. Lenhart, 56 Pa. 367 (1867). See 50 Conn. 101, 93. 2r. abeiance, suspension, waiting: abayer, to expect. 3 2B1. Com. 107, 216, 318. ' i Kent, 260. li 2 Bl. Com. 107. « Wa Uach v. Van Eiswick, 92 XT. S. 212 (1875). ' Dartmouth College D.Woodward, 4 Wheat. 691 (1819). "Town of Pawletu. Clark, 9 Cranch, 333 (1815). » Bank v. Sherman, 101 U. S. 406 (1879). ' » 1 Kent, 103. See also 5 Mass. 555; 16 id. 464. "Shaw V. Hatch, 6 N. H. 163 (1833). proceedings), although it does not oblige the defendant to attend court personally and consecutively, yet it does require him to take notice, by himself or his representative, of each step in the proceeding, and to attend personally when by law necessary.' " To abide and satisfy " a judgment or order is to perform, execute, conform to, and to satisfy it; that is, to carry it into complete effect.'' Abiding conviction. Of guilt — a settled and fixed conviction, a conviction which may follow a careful examination of the whole evidence in the case.'