Renounce

Defined in 6 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Abbott (1879)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

To give up a right; for example, an executor may renounce the right of administering the estate of the testator; a widow, the right to administer to her intestate husband's estate.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

To relinquish a right.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

To give up a right; for example, an executor may renounce the right of administering the estate of the testator; a widow, the right to administer to her intestate husband’s estate.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

To reject; cast off; repudiate ; disclaim; forsake; abandon; divest one's self of a right, power or privilege. Usually it implies an affirmative act of disclaimer or dlsavowal.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

To give up; to resign; to relinquish; to disclaim or disavow. /n English law. Renounce probate: to refuse to assume the duties of executor; to refuse to take out probata

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

To give up, explicitly; to disavow a right or privilege; to disclaim. Renunciation: declaring that one will not assume an office, privilege, or right; disclaimer. Renounce is narrower than abandon, being appropriate where some affirmative act or avowal of disclaimer is involved; while abandon may mean merely to omit or refrain from exercising the right.