determa (determa)

A native wood of Guiana, used for masts, booms, and as planking for ve els. It is avoided by insects. determent (dē-ter'ment), n. [ Nor will the ill succe of some be made a sufficient de terment unto others. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err. These are not all the determents that opposed my obeying you. Boyle . determinability (dē-term i-na-bil'i-ti), n. [ determinable : see- bility .] The quality of being determinable. determinable (de-ter'mi-na-bl), a. [ In sauter [psalter] is sayd a verce ouerte That spekez a poynt determynable . Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), i. 593. The point now before us is not wholly determinable from the bare grammatical use of the words. South , Sermons, IV. vi. Social change is facile in proportion as men's places and functions are determinable by personal qualities. H. Spencer , Prin. of Sociol., § 445. 2. In law: (a) Subject to premature termination: as, a lease determinable at the option of the le or. (b) Liable to be terminated by a contingency yet uncertain or unknown: as, a deter minable fee. Thus, a devise being made to A, but in case he should die without leaving i ue, then to B, the estate in A during his life is a fee because it may be forever, but is determinable by reason of the contingent limitation. See fee2 .