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defeasance | defeasanced |

As a noun defeasance

is destruction, defeat, overthrow.

As an adjective defeasanced is

(legal) liable to defeasance; capable of being made void or forfeited.

defeasance

English

(wikipedia defeasance)

Alternative forms

* defeasaunce

Noun

(en noun)
  • Destruction, defeat, overthrow.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.xii:
    • that hoarie king, with all his traine, / Being arriued, where that champion stout / After his foes defeasance did remaine [...].
  • (US, legal) The rendering void of a contract or deed; an annulment.

    • Related terms

    * defease

    defeasanced

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (legal) Liable to defeasance; capable of being made void or forfeited.
    • (Webster 1913)