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Opposition

The act of opposing an attempt to check restrain or defeat resistance

Lose

To suffer loss disadvantage or defeat to be worse off esp as the result of any kind of contest

Perempt

To destroy to defeat

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Marriage settlement

and Watts on Divorce; Dixon on Divorce. In Scotland, the legal rights of spouses and children may be defeated by an ante-nuptial contract of marriage but not by a post-nuptial contract.

Lien

by sale under order of the Court, and in cases where the lien is not possessory, may be defeated like other charges under the Statute of Limitations, from which possessory liens are exempt. Instances of equitable liens

Lex deraisnia

Lex deraisnia, the proof of thing which one denies to be done by him where another affirms it; defeating the assertion of his adversary, and showing it to be against reason or probability; this was used among

Fraud

power or mala fide exercise of power. It may arise due to overstepping the limits of power or defeating the provision of statute by adopting subterfuge or the power may be exercised for extraneous or irrelevant considerations.

Evade

Evade, the word 'evade' means defeating the provision of law of paying duty. It is made more stringent by use of the word 'intent',

Conditional legacy

or not happening of some uncertain event, by which it is either to take effect or to be defeated.

Estate

vest or be enlarged; (b) subsequent, by the failure or non-performance of which an estate already vested is defeated; such are (i.) estates held in vadio, gage, or pledge, which are of two kinds: vivum vadium, living

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