To desert, surrender, forsake, or cede. To relinquish or give up with intent of never again resuming one’s right or interest. Burroughs v. Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co., 220 P. 152, 155, 109 Or. 404. To give up or to cease to use. Southern Ry. Co. v. Commonwealth, 105 S.E. 65, 67, 128 Va. 176. To give up absolutely; to forsake entirely; to renounce utterly; to relinquish all connection with or concern in; to desert. Commonwealth v. Louisville & N. R. Co., 258 S.W. 101, 102, 201 Ky. 670. It includes the intention, and also the external act by which it is carried into effect.

Lat. In the civil law. A great-great-grandfather’s sister, (abavi soror.) Inst. 3, 6, 6; Dig. 38, 10, 3; Calvinus, Lex. Called amita maxima. Id. 38, 10, 10, 17. Called, in Bracton, abamita magna. Bract. fol. 68b.

In the Civil Law, a making over of realty, or chattels to another by due course of law.