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Ademptio

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

Lat In the civil law. A revocation of a legacy; an ademption.

Inst. 2, 21, pr.

Where it was expressly transferred from one person to another, it was called translatio.

Id. 2, 21,1; Dig. 34, 4.