Rejection; disclaimer; renunciation ; the rejection or refusal of an offered or available right or privilege, or of a duty or relation. See Iowa State Sav. Bank v. Black, 91 Iowa, 490, 59 N. W. 2S3; Daley ,v. Saving Ass’n, 17S Mass. 13, 59 N. E. 452. The refusal on the part of a state or government to pay its debts, or its declaration that its obligations, previously contracted, are no longer regarded by it as of binding force. In the civil law . The casting off or putting away of a woman betrothed; also, but less usually, of a wife; divorcement. In ecclesiastical law . The refusal to accept a benefice which has been conferred upon the party repudiating.
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