defeasance

English

Alternative forms

• defeasaunce

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman defeasaunce.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈfiːzəns/

Noun

defeasance (countable and uncountable, plural defeasances)

1. (now rare) Destruction, defeat, overthrow.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     that hoarie king, with all his traine, / Being arriued, where that champion stout / After his foes defeasance did remaine […]

2. (US, law) The rendering void of a contract or deed; an annulment or abrogation.

Related terms

• defease

Translations

annulment

• Bulgarian: отмяна (bg) (otmjana), анулиране (bg) (anulirane)
• Greek: αντέγγραφο (el) n (anténgrafo)
• Russian: аннули́рование (ru) n (annulírovanije)

Verb

defeasance (third-person singular simple present defeasances, present participle defeasancing, simple past and past participle defeasanced)

1. (US, law, transitive) To void; to annul.

Further reading

• defeasance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia