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Definition of Disaffirmance
1. n. The act of disaffirming; denial; negation.
Definition of Disaffirmance
1. Noun. (legal) The act of disaffirming; denial. ¹
2. Noun. (legal) Overthrow or annulment by the decision of a superior tribunal. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Disaffirmance
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Disaffirmance
Literary usage of Disaffirmance
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles of the Law of Contract: With a Chapter on the Law of Agency by William Reynell Anson, Arthur Linton Corbin (1919)
"A disaffirmance terminates these. If, in the performance of the contract, property
in either land or chattels has been conveyed, ..."
2. The Law of Contracts by William Herbert Page (1920)
"disaffirmance of contract for sale or purchase of personalty. An executed contract
for the sale or mortgage of personal property may also be avoided by an ..."
3. Hand-book of the Law of Contracts by William Lawrence Clark (1894)
"At one time disaffirmance of a deed of land was required to be by some act as
high and ... The disaffirmance or ratification must go to the whole contract. ..."
4. Commentaries on the Law of Contracts: Being a Consideration of the Nature ...by William Frederick Elliott by William Frederick Elliott (1913)
"disaffirmance—How indicated.—It is unnecessary for an infant to disaffirm his
agreement in a definite and prescribed manner. ..."
5. Handbook on the Law of Persons and Domestic Relations by Walter Checkley Tiffany (1921)
"disaffirmance of a contract, like ratification, may be implied, ... this is a
disaffirmance of his contract.81 The bringing of ance Co., 60 Md. 150. ..."
6. A Treatise on the Law of Real Property as Applied Between Vendor and by Leonard Augustus Jones (1896)
"Indiana : The doctrine of a reasonable time for disaffirmance ia rejected in the
... Germain, 21 Iowa, 585, un act of disaffirmance about two years after ..."
7. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1889)
"This subsequent conveyance will not act as a disaffirmance of the prior deed
unless it is so inconsistent with it that the two cannot stand together.1 A ..."