(v. t.) To cut off; to take away or deduct a part of; -- used chiefly of money, accounts, rents, income, etc.
(v. i.) To commit defalcation; to embezzle money held in trust.
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Defeasible
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(a.) Capable of being annulled or made void; as, a defeasible title.
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(1) Here are some tax techniques used by different companies over the years • Cross-border tax arbitrage • Hybrid debt instruments • Hybrid entities • Thin capitalisation • Thick capitalisation • Debt dumping • Loss buying • Outward domestication • Corporate inversions • Tax-efficient supply chain management • Intangibles fragmentation • Dividend buying • Company migrations • Dividend traps • Dutch sandwich • Swiss roundabout (long obsolete) • Value shifting • Defeased leasing • Capital allowance buying • Rent factoring • This article was amended on Thursday 5 February 2009.
(2) (2) This presumption of the family's dominant role in decision making is defeasible: protection of the patient's rights requires that decisions be made within a framework that allows vigorous discussion and accoutability through impartial review and that provides for legal intervention when necessary.
(3) For their part, animal rightists should acknowledge that rights, however basic, are also defeasible by appeals to consequences.