[ad. L. ademptiōn-em n. of action, f. adimĕre: see ADEEM.]
1. A taking away; mostly in Law, a revocation of a grant, or bequest.
1590. H. Swinburn, Testaments, 277. Ademption is a taking away of the legacie before bequeathed.
c. 1630. Jackson, Creed, IV. v. Wks. III. 42. Whether ademption of equal portions from things equal leave not such equality betwixt them as it found.
1765. Burn, Eccl. Law, IV. 263. If a man gives a portion to his daughter by will, and afterwards advances her with the like sum, it shall go in ademption of the legacy.
1880. Muirhead, Ulpian, xxiv. § 29. 420. The words of ademption were to be a repetition of those of bequest, with the addition of a negative.
