Divestitive Fact
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
One which puts an end to a right or status. Thus, the right of a creditor is at an end when his debt is paid. Bentham divides divestitive facts into destitutive, abolishing rights, and exonerative, extinguishing duties.
See Dispositive Facts.