adeem

[ uh-deem ]

verb (used with object)Law.
  1. to revoke (a legacy) by ademption.

Origin of adeem

1
1835–45; <Latin adimere to take away, deprive of, confiscate, equivalent to ad-ad- + -imere, combining form of emere to take, buy; spelling conformed to redeem

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