abolition

abolition
I noun abolishment, abrogation, annihilation, annulment, cancellation, defeasance, deposal, destruction, desuetude, discontinuance, dissolutio, dissolution, disusage, disuse, elimination, eradication, extermination, extinction, extinguishment, extirpation, invalidation, nonuse, nullification, obliteration, recantation, recision, repeal, repudiation, rescindment, rescission, retraction, revocation, revokement, vacation, voidance associated concepts: abolition of a remedy, abolition of an action, abolition of office, abolition of slavery, express abolition, implied abolition foreign phrases:
- Cujus est instituere, ejus est abrogare. — Whoever may institute, his right it is to abrogate.
II index abatement (extinguishment), ademption, annulment, cancellation, censorship, countermand, defeasance, destruction, discharge (annulment), discharge (release from obligation), discontinuance (act of discontinuing), dissolution (termination), disuse, negation, obviation, removal, repudiation, rescision, reversal, revocation, subversion

Burton's Legal Thesaurus. . 2006


abolition
n.
1 The act of abolishing.
2 The legal abolition and prohibition of slavery.
3 The abolition of slavery in the United States by the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary. . 2000.


abolition
The destruction, annihilation, abrogation, or extinguishment of anything, but especially things of a permanent nature—such as institutions, usages, or customs, as in the abolition of slavery.

Dictionary from West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005.


abolition
The destruction, annihilation, abrogation, or extinguishment of anything, but especially things of a permanent nature—such as institutions, usages, or customs, as in the abolition of slavery.

Short Dictionary of (mostly American) Legal Terms and Abbreviations.

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