1. He was acquitted in default of strong evidence of his guilt.

2. They accepted what he had said in default of any evidence to disprove it.

3. In default of experts'help, we shall have to rely on our own efforts.

4. The committee will not meet in default of a chairman.

5. A woman could inherit the throne in default of male heirs.

6. We use the study of coinage in default of and particularly to supplement other sources of historical information.

7. In default of expert's help, you'll have to rely on yourselves.

8. In default of tools,[http://] she used a hairpin and a buttonhook.

9. In default of the aforesaid data, no experimental animals may be used.

10. Malvolio becomes, in default of competition, the play's moral centre.

11. In default of anything else social life centered around the table and sideboard.

12. I imagine this is on the grounds that there can be no profitable reclamation of the goods in default of settlement!

13. The second deals with intestate succession i. e. the mode of distribution prescribed by law in default of any provision made by the deceased.

14. A grandnephew is almost the same as a grandson; in default of a lawyer one takes a lancer.

15. An old custom in certain English boroughs whereby the right to inherit an estate intestate went to the youngest son or, in default of issue, to the youngest brother.

1. They accepted what he had said in default of any evidence to disprove it.

2. In default of experts'help, we shall have to rely on our own efforts.