Abjure
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
To renounce, or abandon, by or upon oath. See ABJURATION. "The decision of this court in Arthur v. Broadnax, 3 Ala. 557, affirms that if the husband has abjured the state, and remains abroad, the wife, meanwhile trading as a feme sole, could recover on a note which was given to her as such. We must consider the term 'abjure,' as there used, as implying a total abandonment of the state; a departure from the state without the intention of returning, and not a renunciation of one's country, upon an oath of perpetual banishment, as the term originally implied."
15 Ala. 148.