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defeat [Anglo-French defait, past participle of defaire to undo, defeat, from Old French deffaire desfaire, from de-, prefix marking reversal of action + faire to do] 1 a : to render null [third parties will an attached but “unperfected” security interest "J. J. White and R. S. Summers"] b : to prevent or undo the effectiveness or establishment of [ jurisdiction] [defendant took stand and ed intoxication defense "National Law Journal"] 2 a : to prevail over b : to thwart the claim of [ creditors] [an intent to the surviving spouse of his…elective share "Tennessee Code Annotated"] defeat n ...
defeatism
acceptance of the inevitability of defeat...
Conditional limitation
Conditional limitation partakes of the nature both of a condition and a remainder. At the Common Law whenever either the whole fee or a particular estate, as an estate for life or in tail, was first limited, no condition or other quality could be annexed to this prior estate, which would have the double effect of defeating the estate, and passing the lands to a stranger, for as a remainder it was void, being an abridgment or defeasance of the estate first granted, and as a condition it was void, as no one but the donor or his heirs could take advantage of a condition broken; and the entry of the donor or his heirs unavoidably defeated the livery upon which the remainder depended. On these principles it was impossible by the old law to limit by deed, if not by will, an estate to a stranger upon any event which might abridge or determine an estate previously limited. But the expediency of such limitations, assisted by the revolution effected by the Statute of Uses, at length established ...
Defeasance (defeasance)
Defeasance (defeasance) [fr. defaire, Fr., to undo], a collateral deed accompanying another, providing that upon the performance of certain matters an estate or interest created by such other deed shall be defeated and determined.A defeasance should recite the deed to be defeated and its date, and must be made between the same parties as are interested in the recited deed or their representatives, and with the same formalities as the deed which created the estate to be defeated; it must be of a thing defeasible, and all the conditions must be strictly performed before the defeazance can be consummated.So long as it was the law that a condition in a lease not to alien without license was determined by the first license granted [Dumpor's case, (1603) 1 Sm. L. C.], a defeazane was frequently adopted in order to revive the condition, and so virtually to limit the license to the particular assignment, but the (English) Law of Property Amendment Act, 1859 (22 & 23 Vict. c. 35), replaced by t...
reparation
reparation 1 a : the act of making amends, offering expiation, or giving satisfaction for a wrong or injury b : something done or given as amends or satisfaction 2 : the payment of damages ;specif : compensation in money or materials payable by a defeated nation for damages to or expenditures sustained by another nation as a result of hostilities with the defeated nation usually used in pl. ...
Chaeronea
either of two battles in ancient Greece one in which Philip of Macedon defeated the Athenians and Thebans 338 BC or another in which Sulla defeated Mithridates 86 BC...
Disappoint
To defeat of expectation or hope to hinder from the attainment of that which was expected hoped or desired to balk as a man is disappointed of his hopes or expectations or his hopes desires intentions expectations or plans are disappointed a bad season disappoints the farmer of his crops a defeat disappoints an enemy of his spoil...
Defeasance
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)....
Dower
Dower [fr. dos, dotis, Lat., a marriage gift; dotare dower, Fr., endow, to furnish with a marriage portion. Dotarium, M. Lat., dotaire, Prov.; douaire, Fr.; a dowry of marriage provision; douairiere, a widow in possession of her portion, a dowager], the right which a wife has in the third part of the lands and tenements of which her husband dies possessed in fee-simple, fee-tail general, or as heir in special tail, which she holds from and after his decease, in severalty by metes and bounds, for her life, whether she have issue by her husband or not, and of what age soever she may be at her husband's decease, provided she be past the age of nine years.The legal estate in dower (being an estate for life) has been abolished and converted into an equitable interest (ibid.), (English) L.P. Act, 1925, s. 1; it can only arise in respect of deaths after 1925 in case the deceased husband was a lunatic or defective on January 1st, 1925, and died without regaining testamentary capacity or before...
Entitled to apply again
Entitled to apply again, is given its literal meaning, it would defeat the very object for which the legislature has incorporated that proviso in the Act inasmuch as the object of that proviso can be defeated by a landlord who has more than one tenanted premises by filing multiple applications simultaneously for eviction and there after obtaining possession of all those premises without the bar of the proviso being applicable to him, Molar Mal v. Kay Iron Works (P) Ltd., (2004) 4 SC 285....
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