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Abandun

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

or ABANDUM. Anything sequestered, proscribed, or abandoned. Abandon, i. e., in bannum res missa, a thing banned or denounced as forfeited or lost; whence to abandon, desert, or forsake, as lost and gone.

Cowell.

Pasquier thinks it a coalition of a ban donner, to give up to a prescription, in which sense it signifies the ban of the empire.

Wharton.

ABARNARE (Lat.) To discover and disclose to a magistrate any secret crime. Leges Canuti, c.

1.

ABATAMENTUM ^Lat. abata/re). An entry by interposition.

Co. Litt. 277.

An abatement.

Yelv. 151.