Defeat - Law Dictionary Search Results
disappointing
defeating ones expectations or hopes failing to fulfill ones expectations or hopes as a disappointing result a disappointing crop
bested
same as defeated
Disappointed
Defeated of expectation or hope balked as a disappointed person or hope
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Cast
Cast, defeated at law, condemned in costs or damages.
Defeasance (defeasance)
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
Fraudulent conveyances, Statutes against
deemed (as against that person, etc.) to be utterly void. But the Act shall not be construed to defeat or make void any conveyance, etc., for good consideration and bona fide. The Act was held to extend
reparation
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
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
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
Heir
who, if the ancestor should die immediately, would be his heir, but whose right of inheritance may be defeated by the contingency of some nearer heir being born; as a brother or nephew, whose presumptive succession may
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