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defective title
noun [C or U] LAW, PROPERTYDefinition
› a situation in which legal documents are not available to prove the ownership of something: Adjudication may result in a decision by a court to implement a defective title to land.
(Definition of defective title noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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