DEFEASIBLE


Meaning of DEFEASIBLE in English

-zəbəl adjective

Etymology: Anglo-French, from Old French desfais-, deffais- (stem of desfaire, deffaire ) + -ible

: capable of being or liable to being voided, annulled, or undone : subject to defeasance especially by being cut off through the exercise of a power or the happening of an event

a claim to an estate may be defeasible so long as the claimant is under 21 and unmarried

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