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Webster 1913 Edition

(ȧ-dĕmp′shŭn)

Noun.

[L.

ademptio

, fr.

adimere

ademptum

, to take away;

emere

to buy, orig. to take.]

(Law)

The revocation or taking away of a grant, donation, legacy, or the like.

Bouvier.

Noun.

[L. adimo, to take away; of ad and emo, to take.]

In the civil law, the revocation of a grant, donation, or the like.

ademption ‎(countable and uncountable, plural ademptions)

(law) In the law of wills, the determination of what happens when property left under a will is no longer in the testator's estate when the testator dies.