Obeyance vs. Abeyance

obedience

(nonstandard) abeyance

(legal) Expectancy; condition of ownership of real property being undetermined; lapse in succession of ownership of estate, or title.

Example: ‘The proceeds of the estate shall be held in abeyance in an escrow account until the minor reaches age twenty-one.’;

Suspension; temporary suppression; dormant condition.

(heraldry) Expectancy of a title, its right in existence but its exercise suspended.

Example: ‘The broad pennant of a commodore first class has been in abeyance since 1958, together with the rank.’;

Expectancy; condition of being undetermined.

Suspension; temporary suppression.

Example: ‘Keeping the sympathies of love and admiration in a dormant state, or state of abeyance.’;

temporary cessation or suspension

Abeyance (from the Old French abeance meaning ) is a state of expectancy in respect of property, titles or office, when the right to them is not vested in any one person, but awaits the appearance or determination of the true owner. In law, the term abeyance can be applied only to such future estates as have not yet vested or possibly may not vest.

Example: ‘gaping’;