Extinguishment
11extinguishment — noun a) The act of extinguishing, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being extinguished. b) The annihilation or extinction of a right or obligation …
12extinguishment — See discharge. American Banker Glossary …
13extinguishment — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. Utter destruction: annihilation, eradication, extermination, extinction, extirpation, liquidation, obliteration. See CRIMES, HELP, MAKE. 2. Law. An often formal act of putting an end to: abolishment, abolition,… …
14extinguishment — n. quenching, putting out, dousing; extinction, total destruction …
15extinguishment — n. 1. Quenching, extinction. 2. Destruction, suppression, abolition, abolishment. See extinction …
16extinguishment — ex·tin·guish·ment …
17extinguishment — Discharge; destruction; termination; cancellation …
18extinguishment of common — In English law, loss of the right to have common, which could happen from various causes …
19extinguishment of copyhold — In English law, a copyhold is said to be extinguished when the freehold and copyhold interests unite in the same person and in the same right, which may be either by the copyhold interest coming to the freehold or by the freehold interest coming… …
20extinguishment of debts — This takes place by payment; by accord and satisfaction; by novation, or the substitution of a new debtor; by merger, when the creditor recovers a judgment or accepts a security of a higher nature than the original obligation; by a release; by… …