Part 2850

<blockquote><b>Defaulting</b> unnecessary and partial discourses. <i>Hales.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Defaulter</h1> <Xpage=380>

<hw>De*fault"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>One who makes default; one who fails to appear in court when court when called.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>One who fails to perform a duty; a delinquent; particularly, one who fails to account for public money intrusted to his care; a peculator; a defalcator.</def>

<h1>Defeasance</h1> <Xpage=380>

<hw>De*fea"sance</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>defesance</ets>, fr. <ets>defesant</ets>, F. <ets>d\'82faisant</ets>, p. pr. of <ets>defaire</ets>, F. <ets>d\'82faire</ets>, to undo. See <er>Defeat</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>A defeat; an overthrow.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>After his foes' <b>defeasance</b>. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A rendering null or void.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>A condition, relating to a deed, which being performed, the deed is defeated or rendered void; or a collateral deed, made at the same time with a feoffment, or other conveyance, containing conditions, on the performance of which the estate then created may be defeated.</def>

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<note>&hand; Mortgages were usually made in this manner in former times, but the modern practice is to include the conveyance and the defeasance in the same deed.</note>

<h1>Defeasanced</h1> <Xpage=381>

<hw>De*fea"sanced</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>Liable to defeasance; capable of being made void or forfeited.</def>

<h1>Defeasible</h1> <Xpage=381>

<hw>De*fea"si*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Defeasance</er>.]</ety> <def>Capable of being annulled or made void; <as>as, a <ex>defeasible</ex> title</as>.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>De*fea"si*ble*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Defeat</h1> <Xpage=381>

<hw>De*feat"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Defeated</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Defeating</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[From F. <ets>d\'82fait</ets>, OF. <ets>desfait</ets>, p. p. ofe <ets>d\'82faire</ets>, OF. <ets>desfaire</ets>, to undo; L. <ets>dis-</ets> + <ets>facere</ets> to do. See <er>Feat</er>, <er>Fact</er>, and cf. <er>Disfashion</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To undo; to disfigure; to destroy.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>His unkindness may <b>defeat</b> my life. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To render null and void, as a title; to frustrate, as hope; to deprive, as of an estate.</def>

<blockquote>He finds himself naturally to dread a superior Being that can <b>defeat</b> all his designs, and disappoint all his hopes. <i>Tillotson.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The escheators . . . <b>defeated</b> the right heir of his succession. <i>Hallam.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>In one instance he <b>defeated</b> his own purpose. <i>A. W. Ward.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To overcome or vanquish, as an army; to check, disperse, or ruin by victory; to overthrow.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To resist with success; <as>as, to <ex>defeat</ex> an assault</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Sharp reasons to <b>defeat</b> the law. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>