Repudiation
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In Civil Law. A term used to signify the putting away of a wife or a woman betrothed. Properly, "divorced" is used to point out the separation of married persons; "repudiation," to denote the separation either of married people, or those who are only affianced. Divortium est repudium et separatio maritorum; repudium est renunciatio sponsalium, vel etiam est divortium.
Dig. 50. 16. 101.
A determination to have nothing to do with any particular thing; as, a repudiation of a legacy is the abandonment of such legacy, and a renunciation of all right to it. In Ecclesiastical Law. The refusal to accept a benefice which has been conferred upon the party repudiating.