(fr. Abba, Syr., Father).
The eleventh month of the Jewish civil year, and the fifth of the sacred year. It answers to the moon that begins in July, and consists of thirty days. On the 24th is observed a feast in memory of the abolishment of the Sadducean law,
which required sons and daughters to be equal heirs and heiresses of their parents’ estates. Brown’s Diet. of Bible, John’s Bib.Antiq. AB, at the beginning of English-Saxon names of places, is generally a contraction of abbot or abbey; whence it is inferred that those places once had an abbey there, or belonged to one elsewhere, as Abingdon in Berkshire. Blount’s Law Gloss. Wharton’s Law Lexicon.

Lat. From the bond of matrimony. A term descriptive of a kind of divorce, which effects a complete dissolution of the marriage contract. See Divorce.

The words of a statute must not be departed from. 5 Coke 119; Wing.Max. 25. A court is not at liberty to disregard the letter of a statute, in favor of a supposed intention. 1 Steph.Comm. 71; Broom, Max. 268.