häving

Häving is a term that appears in some Swedish-language sources but is not widely used in modern standard Swedish. In practice, the more common noun is hävning, which denotes cancellation, revocation, or termination of a legal act or agreement. Häving may be encountered mainly as an older spelling variant or in explanatory texts that discuss historical legal language.

In legal and administrative contexts, hävning or hävningens rättsverkningar describes the effects of withdrawing or rescinding a decision, contract, or regulation. When present as häving, the usage is typically historical or didactic, and contemporary texts usually prefer hävning to avoid ambiguity.

Outside formal law, häving occasionally appears in dialect writings, glossaries, or linguistics materials as a variant form. In these cases, the meaning remains close to revocation or withdrawal, but the lack of standardization can lead to confusion with the more common hävning.

Etymologically, häving is linked to the verb häva, meaning to revoke, withdraw, or suspend, though precise historic derivations are not consistently documented across sources. Because of its rarity, distinctions between häving and hävning are often explained in dictionaries or grammars rather than assumed from everyday usage.

See also: hävning, häva. References to the term are typically found in older legal texts, language guides, or dialect compilations rather than in contemporary legislation or standard reference works.