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defeasible
[ dih-fee-zuh-buhl ]
adjective
- capable of being annulled or terminated.
defeasible
/ ɪˈھːəə /
adjective
- law (of an estate or interest in land) capable of being defeated or rendered void
- philosophy (of a judgment, opinion, etc) having a presupposition in its favour but open to revision if countervailing evidence becomes known Compare incorrigible
Derived Forms
- ˈڱԱ, noun
Other yvlogs From
- ·ڱs··Ա ·ڱȴ·i·ٲ noun
- non·ڱȴ·i·ٲ noun
- ԴDzd·ڱs· adjective
- non·ڱs··Ա noun
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of defeasible1
Example Sentences
Wotton’s ‘Tacit Reserve’, which is the principle that all scientific reasoning is defeasible, is of fundamental importance.
The complex tapestry of riparian rights and “prior appropriation” legal doctrines could even be materially changed by the government applying a type of eminent domain to underlying acreage or defeasible water rights.
It must be of a thing defeasible, and all the conditions must be strictly carried out before the defeasance can be consummated.
Science—the research programme, the experimental method, the interlocking of pure science and new technology, the language of defeasible knowledge—was invented between 1571 and 1704.
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