disaffirmance
(dɪsəˈfɜːməns)
[f. disaffirm v., after affirm, affirmance.]
The action of disaffirming; negation; annulment, repudiation.
| 1610 Bacon in Howell St. Trials (1816) II. 399/1 If it had been a disaffirmance by law they must have gone down in solido. 1643 Prynne Open. Gt. Seal 24 Done in affirmance, onely, not disaffirmance of it, as Lawyers speake. 1677 Hale Prim. Orig. Man. i. iv. 102 As much a Demonstration in disaffirmance of any thing that is affirmed as can possibly be. 1818 Colebrooke Oblig. & Contracts I. 36 A suit..in disaffirmance of it [an illegal contract]..is consonant to the policy of the law. 1868 Benjamin On Sales (1884) 404 The vendor has done some act to disaffirm the transaction..Before the disaffirmance the vendee has transferred the..interest. |