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indefeasibility - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
noun indefeasibility of a title.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun indefeasible , of being incapable of being defeated
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From indefeasible + -ity .
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By ignoring the indefeasibility of first registration land transactions have become a gamble.
Indefeasibility of title? Not that indefeasible in Kenya? : Law is Cool 2009
It's flawed because 'logical indefeasibility ' does not = 'can be successfully argued for', and neither stunney nor I ever said or implied it does.
Carry-Over Thread 2007
On the indefeasibility of Knowledge, see Newman and Nelson
Descartes' Epistemology Newman, Lex 2005
Assuming Descartes could establish premise 2, he would be entitled to this more powerful rule, and without having relaxed his standards of indefeasibility .
Descartes' Epistemology Newman, Lex 2005
This indefeasibility requirement implies more than mere stability.
Descartes' Epistemology Newman, Lex 2005
Before jumping to this conclusion, we should put the indefeasibility requirement into context.
Descartes' Epistemology Newman, Lex 2005
By this useful accommodation of language, the character of indefeasibility attributed to justice is kept up, and we are saved from the necessity of maintaining that there can be laudable injustice.
Utilitarianism 1901
By this useful accommodation of language, the character of indefeasibility attributed to justice is kept up, and we are saved from the necessity of maintaining that there can be laudable injustice.
Utilitarianism John Stuart Mill 1839
Now among all those uniformities in the succession of phenomena, which common observation is sufficient to bring to light, there are very few which have any, even apparent, pretension to this rigorous indefeasibility : and of those few, one only has been found capable of completely sustaining it.
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) John Stuart Mill 1839
Now among all those uniformities in the succession of phenomena, which common observation is sufficient to bring to light, there are very few which have any, even apparent, pretension to this rigorous indefeasibility : and of those few, one only has been found capable of completely sustaining it.
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839
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