defeasance

Alternative forms

defeasaunce

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman defeasaunce.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈfiːzəns/

Noun

defeasance (countable and uncountable, plural defeasances)

(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 […]
(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)

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