voidance

Loss of claim Another penalty was the voidance of a claim.

To ask for comity in the matter was to ask for the voidance of the treaty.

Then, as they continued their journey, the squire hearkening attentively to the knight's words, they came to a river, and while there they watered the beasts, the mule made a voidance in the stream.

So he said to the merchant, "Verily, thou exaggeratest in doing us honour; but, by Allah, I will not eat of thy meat until thou tell me what hath caused the voidance of yonder house."