Waiving

vbl. sb. [f. WAIVE v.¹ + -ING¹.] The action of WAIVE v.¹

1596.  Bacon, Use Com. Law (1630), 76. A Thiefe hauing stolne goods, being pursued flyeth away and leaueth the goods. This leauing is called Wayuing.

1654.  Bramhall, Just Vind., iv. (1661), 62. This was not a conquest, but a plain waving of his sentences from Rome and a yielding of the question.

1826.  Bell, Comm. Laws Scot. (ed. 5), I. 422. If the drawer say to the holder before the bill falls due,… that he will call and see whether the bill has been paid by the acceptor, it is a waiving of notice.

1914.  B. H. Streeter, Restatem. & Reunion, iv. 191. In the minds of a minority, any waiving of the Rubric seems to involve a point of principle.