Abandonment

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Careless freedom or ease; abandon.

II. Abandonment ·noun The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege, as to mill site, ·etc.

III. Abandonment ·noun The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.

IV. Abandonment ·noun The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband, or child; desertion.

V. Abandonment ·noun The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against.

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