Defeasible meaning

dĭ-fē'zə-bəl
Capable of being annulled or invalidated.

A defeasible claim to an estate.

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That can be undone or made void.
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Description of a right or interest that is capable of being terminated, or which will terminate upon occurrence of a condition subsequent.
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(law, logic) Capable of being defeated, terminated, annulled, voided or invalidated.

The accounting charge for the non-callable debt is defeasible by an escrow.

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Sentence Examples

  • defeasible reasoning to define belief revision, there is no good reason to accept Preservation.

  • defeasible inferences.

  • defeasible consequence would have a wider scope of application than a merely epistemological theory of inference.

  • defeasible conclusions are built into whatever inferential mechanism implements the non-monotonic relation.

  • defeasible rule or conditional.

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