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Indefeasible

That which cannot be defeated, revoked, or made void. This term is usually applied to an estate or right that cannot be defeated.

indefeasible

adj. cannot be altered or voided, usually in reference to an interest in real property.

indefeasible

adjective binding, confirmed, established, immutable, imperishable, in perpetuum ratus, inalienable, incapable of being defeated, incapable of being revoked, incontestable, incontrovertible, indestructible, indissoluble, indubitable, ineradicable, inextinguishable, insusceptible of change, invariable, inviolable, irrefragable, irreversible, irrevocable, nonreversible, not forfeitable, not to be abrogated, not to be annulled, not to be made void, permanent, reverseless, settled, unalterable, unchallengeable, unchangeable, undefeatable, undeniable, unquestionable
Associated concepts: indefeasible estate, indefeasible interrst, indefeasible title, indefeasibly vested

indefeasible

not liable to be annulled or forfeited.

INDEFEASIBLE. That which cannot be defeated or undone. This epithet is usually applied to an estate or right which cannot be defeated.

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But there was no evidence of any such conduct which might have disqualified them from the benefit of indefeasible title.

Recipient liability under the Torrens system: some category errors

Both immediately dominate an onset consonant, and so node [y.sub.2] of Figure 4 is identified with node [x.sub.8] of Figure 7, with the indefeasible /v/ label winning out over /kh/.

Fixed segmentism and dual description *

And in a quest for indefeasible knowledge, uncertain assumptions have no value.

Rocking the foundations of Cartesian knowledge: critical notice of Janet Broughton, Descartes's Method of Doubt

The gloss added by Lord Watson was that a defrauded party whose title was not indefeasible could nonetheless pass on a valid (and indefeasible) title to a third party who purchased from them in good faith and for valuable consideration.

Exposing the failings of our betters: bad laws don't improve with age

S'il est vrai que le principe d'incontestabilite signifie qu'un titre ne peut etre annule, cela ne veut pas dire que le titre ne sera jamais ecarte consecutivement a l'inscription d'un autre titre incontestable : a title which is indefeasible at one point of time may very well be defeated subsequently.

Le systeme Torrens et la publicite fonciere quebecoise

He foresees government founded on morality, on a system of universal peace, and on the indefeasible hereditary rights of man.

THOMAS PAINE

It makes him the earliest theorist of the egocentric consciousness, the indefeasible sense of private selfhood, which is now often regarded as the invention of the western mind in the last two hundred years.

Ichgeburt: Origenes und die Entstehung der christlichen Idee der Wiederekorperung in der Denkbewegung von Pythagoras bis Lessing

applicable to this and only this class of things, and so carve out indefeasible conclusions from these well-differentiated starting points.

Discipline and Experience: the Mathematical Way in the Scientific Revolution

But in either case, both the casual murderer and the morally typical agent might share in some indefeasible identity as persons who are therefore to be treated in such ways as recognize their common, fixed attribute of potentiality for fully moral agency.

The paradox of moral humility

He feels "a certain indefeasible fellowship in the sorrow of the little girl" (30) and equates Lambert's betrayal of Nora with Miss Morton's rejection of him: "He leaned back in his chair and looked at the child, - the little forlorn, precocious, potential woman.

Watch and Ward: James's fantasy of Omnipotence

These political arrangements were sanctioned by God, and Sir Robert fortified his argument by tracing all legal authority back to the divinely ordained fatherly power of Adam.'(5) It is Filmer's insistence on an indefeasible royal prerogative and his belief in political obligation which struck such a deep chord in Eliot.

Lonely royalists: T.S. Eliot and Sir Robert Filmer

For the cognitive equivalence of "'Snow is white' is true" and "Snow is white" will lead to the (more or less indefeasible) acceptance of the biconditional "'Snow is white' is true iff snow is white"; and a natural way to put this (more or less indefeasible) acceptance is to say "'Snow is white' has the truth conditions that snow is white".