Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    Anything 6equestered, proscribed or abandoned. Abandon, i. e., in bannum res missa, a thing banned ordenounced as forfeited or lost, whence to abandon, desert or forsake, as lost and gone. Cowell.