Abeyance (from the Old French abeance meaning "gaping") is a state of expectancy in respect of property, titles or office, when the right to them is not...

dukedom passed to a cousin yet the three Arlington/Thetford titles fell into abeyance under the principle of moieties between his two sisters, neither of whom...

fell into abeyance between the Earl's five daughters, Lady Katherine, Lady Anne, Lady Isabel, Lady Margaret and Lady Mary. It remained in abeyance until 1734...

the death of his son the 2nd Viscount both titles fell into abeyance. In 1840 the abeyance of the barony was terminated in favour of Miles Thomas Stapleton...

great-grandson, the four-year-old Charles Ellis. The title actually fell into abeyance between 1688 and 1784, between the heirs of the 3rd Earl's two daughters...

again fell into abeyance. The abeyance was terminated for Sir Francis Dashwood, but at his death the barony again went into abeyance. Once again, the...

The abeyance after the death of the 3rd baron was terminated for the 7th Baron Darcy de Knayth, these baronies were held together until the abeyance of...

equally valid claim to the title; in such a case, the title goes into abeyance. The abeyance ends either when there is only one remaining claimant due to the...

Navy. On Thomas's death in 1641, the barony fell into abeyance between his sisters. The abeyance was terminated in 1660 in favour of his nephew, Thomas...

parliament. Between 1463 and 1903 the peerage title fell abeyant until its abeyance was terminated in favour of Marcia Lane-Fox, Baroness Fauconberg and Conyers...

were inherited by his two surviving daughters and his titles went into abeyance: Eleanor de Bohun (1366 - 3 October 1399); married Thomas of Woodstock...

Arlington fell into abeyance between his sisters, Lady Jane and Lady Mary-Rose. The viscountcy and earldom remain abeyant, but the abeyance of his barony was...

6th Baron Berners. This time the peerage remained in abeyance for 89 years, until the abeyance was terminated in 1832 in favour of Robert Wilson, who...

de Clifford, and as he had no surviving male issue this title fell into abeyance between five co-heirs: Margaret, her two elder sisters Catherine (widow...

of Lincoln for later history of this title) while the barony fell into abeyance between the issue of his two aunts, Lady Margaret Clinton (d. 1688) and...

of Fauconberg and Conyers, which went into abeyance. The death of her sister in 2012 terminated the abeyance in favour of the Countess, who succeeded in...

government. Brunei No Illegal since 1908 Penalty: Death by stoning (in abeyance), 1 year imprisonment and 100 lashes for men. Caning and 10 years prison...

1974, the Barony again fell into abeyance, between her two daughters. It was once again revived in 1990, when the abeyance was terminated in favour of Myrtle...

the prior termination of the abeyance of the original title. The Mowbray barony held by the Howard family fell into abeyance in 1777 with the death of Edward...

death in 1455, the barony fell into abeyance between his nieces Maude and Joan. On Joan's death in 1490, the abeyance was terminated in favour of Maude...

Visayas). August 19, 2005 – The transfer of Palawan to Region VI is held in abeyance. November 22, 2007 – Calapan is designated as the regional center of Region...

writ is debatable. This Barony was in abeyance for over three hundred years; when it was called out of abeyance, in 1916, it was accorded precedence as...

The Order of Prince Danilo I (Serbian: Орден Књаза Данила I, romanized: Orden Knjaza Danila I) is an order, formerly of the Principality and later Kingdom...

Undone was released on 2 November 2018 and was preceded by the singles "Abeyance", "Mørklagt" and "L’Appel Du Vide". Neige also played the drums on the...

On the death of the seventh earl in 1616, the barony fell into abeyance. The abeyance was terminated naturally in favour of the earl's daughter Alethea...

sentence was never made public, but Yahya caused the verdict to be held in abeyance in any case. Other Awami League leaders were arrested as well, while a...

third creation was in the Peerage of England in 1461, and has been in abeyance since 1960. John Hastings was summoned to Parliament as Lord Hastings in...

- see below). The barony of Strange remained in abeyance for the next 327 years. However, the abeyance was terminated in 1921 in favour of Elizabeth Frances...

19th-century Venezuelan general and liberator from the Spanish monarchy then in abeyance, who led the struggle for independence throughout much of South America...

presumed to be to the heir (or heirs) general, and therefore it fell into abeyance between the daughters of Sir Owen West (and their heirs in turn). The second...