Defectus
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat. ' [from deficere, to fail, to want, to be deficient.] In old practice. Defect, deficiency, imperfection; failure, default; want. Defectum exitiis; default of issue.
Toums. PL 23.
Propter defectum; on account of deficiency; for want of certain qualifications.
See Propter defectum.