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Ademptio

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Lat. [from adimere, to take away, revoke, adeem.] 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.