defeasance

noun, verb — 3 senses

defeasance

noun

UK /dɪˈfiːzəns/

Etymology From Anglo-Norman defeasaunce.

1

Archaic Destruction, defeat, overthrow.

that hoarie king, with all his traine, / Being arriued, where that champion stout / After his foes defeasance did remaine […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

2

Law US The rendering void of a contract or deed; an annulment or abrogation.

Related terms: defease

defeasance

verb

Etymology From Anglo-Norman defeasaunce.

1

Law US To void; to annul.

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