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Definition of Defeasance
1. n. A defeat; an overthrow.
Definition of Defeasance
1. Noun. (rare) Destruction, defeat, overthrow. ¹
2. Noun. (US legal) The rendering void of a contract or deed; an annulment. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Defeasance
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Defeasance
Literary usage of Defeasance
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Judicial Dictionary, of Words and Phrases Judicially Interpreted: To by Frederick Stroud (1903)
"It " is not strictly a defeasance, because the stipulation is in the same deed;
it means a Condition in the nature of a defeasance " (per Esher, ME, ..."
2. The Law of Mortgages of Real and Personal Property by Francis Hilliard (1864)
"Deed and defeasance must be con-; a defeasance; whether a seal is neces- ...
A MORTGAGE may be made by an absolute deed and a defeasance (a) back to the ..."
3. A Treatise Upon Some of the General Principles of the Law: Whether of a by William Wait (1878)
"And an absolute deed given merely as a security for the payment of money is a
mortgage as much as if a defeasance were expressed in the body thereof, ..."
4. A Treatise on the Modern Law of Real Property and Other Interests in Land by Herbert Thorndike Tiffany (1903)
"create a mortgage valid at law as well as in equity, the defeasance must be of
as high a nature aa the conveyance itself,—that is, if the latter is under ..."
5. An Analytical Digested Index to the Common Law Reports: From the Time of by Thomas Coventry, Samuel Hughes (1832)
"A defeasance is but a conditional release. Z Saund. 48. 2. If in the same deed,
it is called a condition. 2 Saund. Rep. 47 s. 3. ..."
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