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defease<\/i>:<\/p>\n

Defeasance<\/b> (or defeazance<\/b>) (French<\/a>: d\u00e9faire<\/i><\/span>, to undo), in law, an instrument<\/a> which defeats the force or operation of some other deed<\/a> or estate<\/a>; as distinguished from condition<\/i>, that which in the same deed is called a condition is a defeasance in another deed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Noted in “Defend Norms Don’t Violate Them<\/i><\/a>“, Paul Rosenzweig, Lawfare<\/b><\/i>:<\/p>\n

Again, I shudder at the prospect of presidential subordinates who learn from this behavior that it is OK to unilaterally defease the President of his prerogatives if it is for a good cause.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the context of the definition, Paul’s usage makes me uneasy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

defease: Defeasance (or defeazance) (French: d\u00e9faire, to undo), in law, an instrument which defeats the force or operation of some other deed or estate; as distinguished from condition, that which in the same deed is called a condition is a defeasance in another deed. Noted in “Defend Norms Don’t Violate \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9477,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9476\/revisions\/9477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}