obsolescence

obsolescence
A condition resulting from unforeseen changes in the art, which make the installation of new apparatus necessary. 43 Am J1st Pub Util § 145. The condition of a thing which has passed out of general use, is outmoded, and out of fashion. Re Stout, 151 Or 411, 50 P2d 768, 101 ALR 672. As a matter of deduction in computation of income for taxation, that which renders an asset economically useless, regardless of its physical condition, such as technological improvements, economic changes, and legislative or regulatory changes functional depreciation. Real Estate-Land Title & Trust Co. v United States, 309 US 13, 84 L Ed 542, 60 S Ct 371. Obsolescence is not necessarily confined to particular elements or parts of a plant the whole may become obsolete. It may arise as the result of laws regulating or forbidding the particular use of the property as well as from changes in the act, the shifting of business centers, loss of trade, inadequacy, or other causes. Burnet v Niagara Brewing Co. 282 US 648, 75 L Ed 594, 51 S Ct 262. See obsolete.

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