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TO RENOUNCE

Legal Term: TO RENOUNCE
Definition: To give up a right; for example, an executor may renounce the right of administering the estate of the testator; a widow the right to administer to her intestate hushand s estate.

2. There are some rights which a person cannot renounce; as, for example, to plead the act of limitation. Before a person can become a citizen of the United States he must renounce all titles of nobility. Vide Naturalization; To Repudiate.



***All definitions are taken from the 1856 Edition of Bouviers Law Dictionary

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