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Defeasance vs Revocation - What's the difference?

defeasance | revocation |

As nouns the difference between defeasance and revocation

is that defeasance is destruction, defeat, overthrow while revocation is an act or instance of revoking.

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

    revocation

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia revocation) (en noun)
  • An act or instance of revoking.