abeyance

Expectancy; a condition when an ownership of real property is undetermined; lapse in succession of ownership of estate, or title.

The proceeds of the estate shall be held in abeyance in an escrow account until the minor reaches age twenty-one.

Yet sometimes the fee may be in abeyance, that is (as the word signifies) in expectation, remembrance, and contemplation in law; there being no person in esse, in whom it can vest and abide […]

Suspension; temporary suppression; dormant condition.

Without a plausible explanation for what might have provoked an ice age, the whole theory fell into abeyance.

[...] Prosser was instrumental in the decision in 2010 to recommence publication of an annual health and safety report, following a period when it had fallen into abeyance.

Expectancy of a noble or armigeral title, its right in existence but its exercise suspended.

The broad pennant of a commodore first class has been in abeyance since 1958, together with the rank.