REPUDIATIO

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  REPUDIATION. In the civil law this term is used to signify the putting away 
  of a wife or a woman betrothed. 
       2. Properly divorce is used to point out the separation of married 
  persons; repudiation, to denote the separation either of married people, or 
  those who are only affianced. Divortium est repudium et separatio maritorum; 
  repodium est renunciatio sponsalium, vel etiam est divortium. Dig. 50, 16, 


  101, 1. Repudiation is also used to denote a determination to have nothing 
  to do with any particular thing; as, a repudiation of a legacy, is the 
  abandonment of such legacy, and a renunciation of all right to it. 
       3. In the canon law, repudiation is the refusal to accept a benefice 
  which has been conferred upon the party repudiating.