resumption Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun beginning again
    recommencement.

WordNet

Re*sump"tion noun
Etymology
cf. F. résumption, L. resumptio restoration, recovery, fr. resumere. See Resume.
Definitions
  1. The act of resuming; as, the resumption of a grant, of delegated powers, of an argument, of specie payments, etc.
  2. (Eng.Law) The taking again into the king's hands of such lands or tenements as he had granted to any man on false suggestions or other error.

Webster 1913