defeasableadj.

a1443 in Cal. Proc. Chancery Queen Elizabeth (1827) I. p. xxxi Yo^r seid suppliaunte sholde have suffisaunt and sure astate noght defesable of xxiiij li. be yere.

c1523 J. Rastell Expos. Terminorum Legum Anglorum D.3^v/2 The estate that he hath be nat defesable.

1632 T. E. Lawes Womens Rights i. xx. 42 Partition made betwixt two Sisters tenants in fee simple, they both being of full age, is not defesable.

1695 Case Reginald Tucker (single sheet) He purchased a defeazable Title, and must run the same Hazard as the Purchaser of a mortgaged Estate does.

a1726 G. Gilbert Treat. Rents (1758) vi. 146 The Disseisor, having but a defeasable Title, could not perform the Contract.

1742 Laws Govt. New-Castle, Kent & Sussex, upon Delaware 206 And be it further enacted, That no Mortgage-Deed or Defeazable Deed in the Nature of Mortgages hereafter to be made, shall be good or sufficient to pass any Freehold or Inheritance.

1851 S. Colt vs. Mass. Arms Company: Rep. Trial 212 The assignment which Mr. Colt made to the Patent Arms Co., and which has been ruled in, was a defeasable one.

1882 St. Louis (Missouri) Globe-Democrat 15 Mar. 3/4 The point involved..whether that statute conferred on non-resident aliens the right to inherit a defeasable estate.

1926 Times 31 July 4/5 He became entitled, inter alia, to a defeasable life interest in the income derived from a sum of £16,000.

2005 Cambr. Law Jrnl. 64 219 Problems could arise where a recognizance was a penalty defeasable by performing a side agreement.

1610 J. Donne Pseudo-martyr v. 158 Much lesse were our lawes..subiect to that frailty, and defeseablenesse.

1736 M. Bacon New Abridgm. Law V. 340 The Words of the Statute sit Nullus are construed to mean that it is as good as void, in respect of the Defeasableness of it.