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- English Word Default Definition To fail to appear in court; to let a case go by default.
- English Word Default Definition To fail to perform or pay; to be guilty of neglect of; to omit; as, to default a dividend.
- English Word Default Definition To call a defendant or other party whose duty it is to be present in court, and make entry of his default, if he fails to appear; to enter a default against.
- English Word Default Definition To leave out of account; to omit.
- English Word Defaulted Definition of Default
- English Word Defaulter Definition One who makes default; one who fails to appear in court when court when called.
- English Word Defaulter Definition 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.
- English Word Defaulting Definition of Default
- English Word Defeasance Definition A defeat; an overthrow.
- English Word Defeasance Definition A rendering null or void.
- English Word Defeasance Definition 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.
- English Word Defeasanced Definition Liable to defeasance; capable of being made void or forfeited.
- English Word Defeasible Definition Capable of being annulled or made void; as, a defeasible title.
- English Word Defeat Definition To undo; to disfigure; to destroy.
- English Word Defeat Definition To render null and void, as a title; to frustrate, as hope; to deprive, as of an estate.
- English Word Defeat Definition To overcome or vanquish, as an army; to check, disperse, or ruin by victory; to overthrow.
- English Word Defeat Definition To resist with success; as, to defeat an assault.
- English Word Defeat Definition An undoing or annulling; destruction.
- English Word Defeat Definition Frustration by rendering null and void, or by prevention of success; as, the defeat of a plan or design.
- English Word Defeat Definition An overthrow, as of an army in battle; loss of a battle; repulse suffered; discomfiture; -- opposed to victory.