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  Default, as in failing to meet an obligation, may refer to:
  • Default (law)
    Default (law)

    In law, a default is the failure to do something required by law or to appearat a required time in legal proceedings.In the United States, for example, when a party has failed to file meaningful response to pleadings within...
    • Default judgment
      Default judgment

      Default judgment is a binding judgment in favor of the plaintiff when the defendant has not responded to a summons or has failed to appear before a court of law....
  • Default (finance)
    Default (finance)

    In finance, default occurs when a debtor has not met his or her legal obligations according to the debt contract, e.g. has not made a scheduled payment, or has violated a loan covenant of the debt contract....
    , failure to satisfy the terms of a loan obligation or to pay back a loan


Default, as a result when no action is taken, may refer to:
  • Default (computer science)
    Default (computer science)

    A default, in computer science, refers to a setting or Value automatically assigned to a software application, computer program or Peripheral device, outside of user intervention....
    , a preset setting or value
  • Default logic
    Default logic

    Default logic is a non-monotonic logic proposed by Raymond Reiter to formalize reasoning with default assumptions.Default logic can express facts like “by default, something is true”; by contrast, standard logic can only express that something is true or that something is false....


It may also refer to:
  • Default (band)
    Default (band)

    Default is a Canadian post-grunge/alternative rock band from Vancouver, British Columbia. Since forming in 1999 they have released three albums, and have sold more than a million records....
    , a Canadian post-grunge and alternative rock band
  • defaults (software)
    Defaults (software)

    defaults is a command line utility that manipulates Property list files. defaults is present in the Mac OS X and GNUstep operating systems, and it first appeared in the NeXTStep operating system upon which both of the aforementioned systems are based....
    , a command line utility for plist (preference) files