Lat. In the civil law. A great-great-grandmother’s sister, (abavice soror). Inst.3, 6, 6; Dig. 38, 10, 3. Called matertera maxima. Id. 38, 10, 10, 17. Called, by Bracton, abmatertera magna. Bract. fol. 68b.

A letting out to hire, or leasing for money. Calvin. Sometimes used in the English form “ablocation.”

Papal ambassadors of the second rank, who are sent to a country where there is not a nuncio, with a less extensive commission than that of a nuncio. This title is equivalent to envoy.