failure

  • 131Failure in gas industry — is an abnormal operation of a technical facility as a result of improper change of its parameters or settings under the influence of physicochemical, external mechanical, climatic or other factors. Technical operation failure brings a facility… …

    Glossary of Oil and Gas

  • 132failure of issue — Dying without children. The failure at a fixed time, or the total extinction, of issue to take an estate limited over by an executory devise. A definite failure of issue is when a precise time is fixed by the will for the failure of issue, as in… …

    Black's law dictionary