Definition of DEFECT in Black's Law Dictionary 4th Edition – Legal dictionary – Glossary of legal terms.
Definition of DEFECT
The want or absence of some legal requisite; deficiency; imperfection; insufficiency. Sappenfield v. National Zinc Co., 94 Kan. 22, 145 P. 862, 863; Galloway v. City of Winchester, 299 Ky. 87, 184 S.W.2d 890, 892, 893. The want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; a lack or absence of something essential to completeness; a deficiency in something essential to the proper use for the purpose for which a thing is to be used. Roberts v. Rogers, 129 Neb. 298, 261 N.W. 354; Terrell v. City of Orangeburg, 176 S.C. 518, 180 S.E. 670.
Thus, a bamboo vaulting pole which was not straight and was unbalanced had a "defect." McCormick v. Lowe & Campbell Athletic Goods Co., 235 Mo.App. 612, 144 S.W. 2d 866, 876.
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