Suspense

Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Abbott (1879)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

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

When a rent, profit a prendre, and the like, are, in consequence of the unity of possession of the rent, etc., of the land out of which they issue, not in esse for a time, they are said to be in suspense, tunc dormiunt; but they may be revived or awakened. Co. Litt. 313a.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

When a rent, profit & prendre, and the like, are, in consequence of the unity of possession of the rent, etc., of the land out of which they issue, not in esse for a time, they are said to be in suspense, tunc dormiunt; but they may be revived or awakened. Co. Litt. 313 a.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

When a rent, profit d prendre, and the like, are, in consequence of the unity of possession of the rent, etc., of the land out of which they issue, not in esse for a time, they are said to be in suspense, tunc dormiunt; but they may be revived or awakened. Co. Litt. 313a.

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

A temporal stop, or hanging up, as it were, of a man's right, for unity of possession of the rent, &c., and the land out of which it issues, is not in esse for a certain time, hut may be revived or awaked. And it differs from extinguishment, whicli is when it dies or is gone for ever. Jacob.