defective title
noun[CorU]
LAW,PROPERTYukusasituationin whichlegaldocumentsare notavailabletoprovetheownershipof something:
Adjudication mayresultin adecisionby acourttoimplementadefectivetitletoland.
Examplesofdefective title
defective title
He was a farmer, and developed a good home, though he lost part of his property through adefectivetitle.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The whole point of prescription is to bolster up a bad ordefectivetitle.
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Hansard archive
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A suggestion ofdefectivetitlecontained in an affidavit would not be sufficient.
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Defective titles, being assured, are rendered absolute and perfect by it.
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But one of the difficulties to which a remedy must be applied is the defective titles, which cannot easily be got rid of under the present system of entails.
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Commission for inquiring into defective titles.
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