Obliteration
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The destruction of words in an instrument by erasure, blotting, or striking out.
They need not be completely effaced
The term is most commonly applied to wills which may be revoked by obliteration, 29 Car. II. c.
3, § 6.