abeyance

IPA: ʌbˈeɪʌns

(law) Expectancy; a condition when an ownership of real property is undetermined; lapse in succession of ownership of estate, or title.
Suspension; temporary suppression; dormant condition.
Expectancy of a noble or armigeral title, its right in existence but its exercise suspended.

Examples of "abeyance" in Sentences

The title has remained in abeyance.
The title of Kolathiri has fallen into abeyance.
And they would rather hold that money in abeyance for next year.
It is as if the ruling is in abeyance until the appeal is decided.
It definitely feels that it cannot ignore Christ, is not capable of leaving Christ in abeyance and then otherwise leading a busy life.
But my impression of a suspended sentence is that it is held in abeyance unless the defendant completes a period of time without a further criminal offense.
"If the socialistic spirit is to be held in abeyance in this country, businesses of this character (anthracite coal mining) must be handled with extraordinary caution."
In fact even the committed ones should put their decision in abeyance not because of popular vote or other but rather because Obama has not gone trough the procees of vetting.
Futures is the award-winning science-fiction section of Nature, currently in abeyance in Nature itself but being published each month in Nature's monthly sister title, Nature Physics.
Without fossil fuels, or some form of alternative energy that can be scaled up to the consumption level of fossil fuels, these non-adaptive social systems will collapse, and all the ferocity of tribal competitiveness, which they had been holding in abeyance, will appear.