Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A rendering void; an annulment.
- noun The voiding of a contract or deed.
- noun A clause within a contract or deed providing for annulment.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An undoing; ruin; defeat; overthrow.
- noun A rendering null and void.
- noun In law, a condition relating to a deed or other instrument, on performance of which the instrument is to be defeated or rendered void; or a collateral deed (in full, a deed of defeasance), made at the same time with a conveyance, containing conditions on the performance of which the estate created may be defeated.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A defeat; an overthrow.
- noun A rendering null or void.
- noun (Law) A condition, relating to a deed, which being performed, the deed is defeated or rendered void; or a collateral deed, made at the same time with a feoffment, or other conveyance, containing conditions, on the performance of which the estate then created may be defeated.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Destruction ,defeat ,overthrow . - noun US, law The
rendering void of acontract ordeed ; anannulment .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Yesterday's term was defeasance, which is defined as:
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Yesterday's term was defeasance, which is defined as:
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The Bush administration argues that the transit systems never get their hands on any funds because of defeasance.
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The Bush administration argues that the transit systems never get their hands on any funds because of defeasance.
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In a municipal defeasance program, a state or local government issues new debt to refund older debt with higher interest costs.
Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage PAUL R. MARTIN 2002
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In a municipal defeasance program, a state or local government issues new debt to refund older debt with higher interest costs.
Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage PAUL R. MARTIN 2002
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Spenser his law-terms: his _capias, defeasance_, and _duresse_; his
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It is probable that the great English scholar, Alcuin, who has been called the Erasmus of the eighth century, had already suggested to the great king that the weakness of the Eastern emperors was a real defeasance of power and that the crown imperial might be his own.
The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003 William Holden Hutton 1895
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Albert de Wichehalse (who received that name before it became so inevitable) was that same worthy boy grown up as to whom the baron had felt compunctions, highly honourable to either party, touching his defeasance; or rather, perhaps, as to interception of his presumptive heirship by the said Albert, or at least by his mother contemplated.
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"At least, let me make him give you a deed of defeasance."
The Clique of Gold ��mile Gaboriau 1852
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