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Defeasance

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Defeasance, is a provision which limits or defeats the operation of the Bill, Blaiberg v. Beckett, (1886) 16 QBD 96 (101) (CA) (UK).

Ordinarily denotes a provision which defeats the operation of a deed but is contained in some other deed or document, as opposed to being a term of the deed itself, Storey, Ex parte Popplewell (in re:), (1888) 21 Ch D 73 (81) (CA) (UK).

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