? Obs. [f. ABANDON v.] The act of abandoning; abandonment, relinquishment; spec. of property insured to the underwriters.
1755. N. Magens, Essay on Insur., I. 89. The Insurers shall be obliged to pay 92 per cent. within two months from and after the Time such Abandon was notified to them.
1774. Kames, Sk. Hist. Man, I. II. sk. viii. 518. These heavy exactions, have occasioned an abandon of all mines but what are of the richer sort.
¶ Cited by Todd from Sandys as ‘a forsaker; he who has abandoned or left any thing’: so in succeeding dictionaries; but Sandys’s word is Abandoner.
