What's the difference between defeasible and indefeasible?

Defeasible


Definition:

  • (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.

Indefeasible


Definition:

  • (a.) Not to be defeated; not defeasible; incapable of being annulled or made void; as, an indefeasible or title.

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