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defeasible, a.|dɪˈfiːzɪb(ə)l|
Also 6 defeazable, 9 -ible, 7 defesible, -eable, 7–9 defeasable.
[a. AF. defeasible (Lyttelton):—OF. type *de(s)faisible, *de(s)fesible, f. de(s)faire, de(s)fes-, to undo + -ble. Cf. feasible.]
Capable of being, or liable to be, undone, ‘defeated’ or made void; subject to forfeiture.
1586J. Ferne Blaz. Gentrie 301 There be two or three rules to be obserued, otherwise the adoption is defeasible. 1612Davies Why Ireland, etc. (1747) 81 He came to the Crowne of England by a defeasible title. 1767Blackstone Comm. II. 393 In all these creatures, reclaimed from the wildness of their nature, the property is not absolute, but defeasible. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) IV. 105 A confirmation may make a voidable or defeazible estate good. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. I. xv. 456 The unlettered savage..might deem the English tenure defeasible.
Hence deˈfeasibleness, defeasiˈbility.
1610Donne Pseudo Martyr 158 Much lesse..were our Lawes subject to that frailty and Defeseablenesse. 1885Sir F. North in Law Rep. 29 Ch. Div. 542 The defeasibility of the gift in favour of Mrs. White. |