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noun
  1. The revocation or taking away of a grant donation, legacy, or the like. Where a legacy of a specific item in a will is no longer owned by the deceased testator at the date of death, the legacy 'ademes' Bouvier.
(webster) Etymology: Latin ademptio, from adimere, ademptum, to take away; ad + emere to buy, originally to take.

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