Obs. [L., 3rd sing. pres. ind. of vacāre to be vacant. Cf. VACATUR.] An annulment or abrogation.
1592. Child-Marriages, 160. To thend that the Recognizaunce thereof may be Adnihilated and voyd, and a vacat therevpon to be entred.
1643. R. Baker, Chron., Edw. II., 145. The want of his fathers blessing … without which a Vacat is set upon the labours of men.
a. 1672. Twysden, in Spelman’s Hist. Sacrilege (1698), Add. 21. Matt. Paris … having written that Marriage to have been Contra Consilium Episc. Edmundi, [he] did afterwards make a Vacat of it.
