default, defalt, defaulte, de faute

O. Fr. deffaute, defaute; Fr. défaut; def = Lat. dis =apart, away, and faute =afault.] [FAULT.] I. Ordinary Language: *1. Want, need. "The lady had defaute bot he of mete and drynk." *2. A failing, fail. Langtoft , p. 122. "Thou miht withoute defaulte to paradys evene gon." Legends of Holy Rood, p. 23. 3. An omi ion or failure to do any act; neglect. "Sedition tumbled into England more by the default of governors than the people's." - Haywood . *4. A fault, a failing. "God amend defaulte."-Chaucer: C. T., 7,392. 5. A defalcation in accounts. IMG:content-2003.png:[blocks in formation] then created may be defeated or totally undone. A defeasance on a bond, or recognizance, or judg- ment recovered, is a condition which, when per- formed, defeats or undoes it, in the same manner as a defeasance of an estate. ( Black stone : Comment., ii. 17.) (a) To fail to appear in a court or to observe any engagement, obligation, contract, or claim. (b) To be a defaulter in monetary matters. *dě-fault', *de-falt, de-fauten, v. i. & t. [DEfeasanc(e); -ed.] Subject to defeasance. tained. 2. The writing in which a defeasance is con- IMG:content-2004.png:[blocks in formation] sary, defaulting unnece ary and partial discourses."selecting out of the best writers what is neces. Hales : Remains ; Ser . Rom . xiv. 1. fails to appear in a court on the day a igned, and II. Law : To enter any person as a defaulter who to give judgment by default against him. FAULT, 2.] *de-fault-ěd, *de-falt-ed, pa . par . or a. [DE-