What is a “defect” and what is its meaning?
Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
The following excerpt is from Giovannini v. Lloyds Bank of Canada, 1994 CanLII 9719 (NL CA):
Black’s-Law Dictionary, sixth edition, defines “defect” as: “The want or absence of some legal requisite; deficiency; imperfection; insufficiency. Galloway v. City of Winchester, 299 Ky. 87, 184 S.W. 2d 890, 892, 893. The absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; a deficiency in something essential to the proper use for the purpose for which a thing is to be used.”
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