caducity (kadusiti)

[= F. caducité, declining life; senility; feeblene ; weakne . A heterogeneous jumble of youth and caducity. Chesterfield , Letters, p. 390. In a miracle-play, the whole life of a saint, from the cradle to martyrdom, was displayed in the same piece: the youth, the middle age, and the caducity of the eminent personage required to be enacted by three different actors. I. D'Israeli, Amen. of Lit., I. 393. 2. In Louisiana law, lapse; failure to take effect: as, the caducity of a will from the birth of a legitimate child to the testator after its date; the caducity of a legacy from the death of the legatee before that of the testator.