Vocabulary : Defeasance to Defecated
Defeasance : A defeat; an overthrow. ;; A rendering null or void. ;; 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.Defeasanced : Liable to defeasance; capable of being made void or forfeited.
Defeasible : Capable of being annulled or made void; as, a defeasible title.
Defeat : To undo; to disfigure; to destroy. ;; To render null and void, as a title; to frustrate, as hope; to deprive, as of an estate. ;; To overcome or vanquish, as an army; to check, disperse, or ruin by victory; to overthrow. ;; To resist with success; as, to defeat an assault. ;; An undoing or annulling; destruction. ;; Frustration by rendering null and void, or by prevention of success; as, the defeat of a plan or design. ;; An overthrow, as of an army in battle; loss of a battle; repulse suffered; discomfiture; -- opposed to victory.
Defeated : of Defeat
