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 vested in any one person, but awaits the appearance or determination of the true owner.

Abeyance has never applied to earldoms, and only baronies have been called out of abeyance.

The 1927 parliamentary Select Committee on Peerages in Abeyance recommended that no abeyance should be considered which is longer in date than 100 years or where the claimant lays claim to at least one third of the dignity.

Abeyance can be used in cases where parties are interested in temporarily settling litigation while still holding the right to seek relief later if necessary.

A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland, Extinct, Dormant, and in Abeyance.

* Sibell Lilian Blunt-Mackenzie, 3rd Countess of Cromartie ( 1878 – 1962 ) ( abeyance terminated 1895 )

Between 1878 and 1880 the line terminated at Harryville, but was then extended to the town's main railway station.

Text reading is terminated when a pre-determined number of forms have been stored in the text-form list.

The inner ( anode ) sphere is pierced, elongated into a cup, and terminated by the phosphor screen.

This dissatisfaction led to Howsam's request that the video not be terminated before the end of the game.

The wars which attended his accession both in Hungary and in Persia terminated unfavourably for the empire, and its prestige received its first check in the Treaty of Zsitvatorok, signed in 1606, whereby the annual tribute paid by Austria was abolished.

As the Battle of the Frigidus, which terminated this campaign, was fought at the passes of the Julian Alps, Alaric probably learned the weakness of Italy's natural defences on its northeastern frontier at the head of the Adriatic.

Between the younger son, Giuseppe Falier, and the artist a friendship commenced which terminated only with life.

A beta test version of AIX 5L for IA-64 systems was released, but according to documents released in the SCO v. IBM lawsuit, less than forty licenses for the finished Monterey Unix were ever sold before the project was terminated in 2002.

Diabelli's firm continued to publish Schubert's work until 1823 when an argument between Cappi and Schubert terminated their business.

The main Hadrianic cardo terminated not far beyond its junction with the decumanus, where it reached the Roman garrison's encampment, but in the Byzantine era it was extended over the former camp to reach the southern walls of the city.

If through lack of issue, marriage or both, eventually only one person represents the claims of all the sisters, he or she can claim the dignity as a matter of right, and the abeyance is said to be terminated.

Some other baronies became abeyant in the 13th century, and the abeyance has yet to be terminated.

He closed on the deal after 30 hours of talks with Hearst and newspaper unions — and five hours after Hearst had sent out notices to newsroom employees telling them they were terminated.

But the sponsorship deal was terminated before it commenced after it was revealed that British steel only made up a tiny fraction of steel used in construction of the stadium-the bulk of the steel had been imported from Germany.

The coup d ' état that terminated Tombalbaye's government received an enthusiastic response in N ' Djamena.

After the eventual breakup of the peace negotiations, which had been stalled numerous times and finally ended due to a guerrilla kidnapping of a congressman and other political figures, the Caguán demilitarized zone was terminated by the Pastrana administration.

RAI International's latest politically appointed President ( an avowed right wing nationalist and former spokesperson for Giorgio Almirante, the leader of the post-fascist party of Italy ) had unilaterally terminated a 20-year-old agreement and stripped all of its 1, 500 to 2, 000 annual hours of programming from TLN Telelatino, a Canadian-run channel which had devoted 95 % of its prime time schedule to RAI programs for 20 years since TLN was founded.

Generally a program doing so will be terminated by the operating system.

If the operating system detects that a program has tried to alter memory that does not belong to it, the program is terminated.

Development terminated at war's end.

Some carotenes are terminated by hydrocarbon rings, on one or both ends of the molecule.

When Warner discovered that Jones had violated his exclusive contract with them, they terminated him.

The CCC program was never officially terminated.

Nor does it prevent the government from retrying the defendant after an appellate reversal other than for sufficiency, including habeas, or " thirteenth juror " appellate reversals notwithstanding sufficiency on the principle that jeopardy has not " terminated.

On September 18, 1974, courts awarded Day $ 22, 835, 646 for fraud and malpractice in an hour-long oral decision by Superior Judge Lester E. Olson, ending a 99-day trial that involved 18 consolidated lawsuits and countersuits filed by Day and Rosenthal that involved Rosenthal's handling of her finances after she terminated him in July 1968.

In the fall of 1878, the `` Popular Telegraph Line '' was established between Manchester and Factory Point by the owners, Paul W. Orvis, Henry Gray, J. N. Hard, and Clark J. Wait.

These Lambeth Conferences have been held roughly every 10 years since 1878 ( the second such conference ) and remain the most visible coming-together of the whole Communion.

* 1878 – Erich Mühsam, German author ( d. 1934 )

In the summer of 1878 Doubleday lived in Mendham, New Jersey, and became a prominent member of the Theosophical Society.

* 1878 – Aino Kallas, Finnish-Estonian author ( d. 1956 )

* 1878 – John Corry Wilson Daly, Canadian politician ( b. 1796 )

Alexander Mackenzie, PC ( January 28, 1822 – April 17, 1892 ), a building contractor and newspaper editor, was the second Prime Minister of Canada from November 7, 1873 to October 8, 1878.

The Liberals won, and Mackenzie remained prime minister until the 1878 election when Macdonald's Conservatives returned to power with a majority government.

He introduced the secret ballot ; advised the creation of the Supreme Court of Canada ; the establishment of the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston in 1874 ; the creation of the Office of the Auditor General in 1878 ; and struggled to continue progress on the national railway.

* 1878 – Dick Grant, Canadian runner ( d. 1958 )

In 1878, a committee of the British Association for the Advancement of Science recommended against constructing the Analytical Engine.

* 1878 – Tip Foster, English cricketer ( d. 1914 )

* 1878 – Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian army officer ( d. 1928 )

* 1878 – Léon Binoche, French rugby player ( d. 1962 )

* 1878 – Manuel L. Quezon, Filipino politician, 2nd President of the Philippines ( d. 1944 )

* 1878 – Richard Girulatis, German footballer and manager ( d. 1963 )

On 23 January 1878 at the Basilica of Atocha in Madrid, Alfonso married his cousin, Princess Maria de las Mercedes, daughter of Antoine, Duke of Montpensier, but she died within six months of the marriage.

Towards the end of 1878 a young workman of Tarragona, Juan Oliva Moncasi, fired at the king in Madrid.

From 1850 onwards he became well known as a critic and essay-writer, and in 1860 he began working on his magnum opus, his History of Music, which was published at intervals from 1862 in five volumes, the last two ( 1878, 1882 ) being edited and completed by Otto Kade and Wilhelm Langhans.

* 1878 – George Whipple, American physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1976 )

* Queen Victoria – the British Weights and Measures Act of 1878 defined it as containing 4, 840 square yards.

Spalding retired from playing baseball in 1878, although he continued as a major force as owner of the White Stockings and major influence on the National League.

Carnegie, c. 1878

* 1878 – Emil Fuchs, German-American attorney and baseball owner ( d. 1961 )