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re·peal /ri-'pēl/ vt [Anglo-French repeler, from Old French, from re- back + apeler to appeal, call, from Latin appellare to address, entreat, call by name]: to rescind or annul by authoritative act; esp: to revoke or abrogate by legislative enactmentlegislatures repeal ing statutes in light of a recent Supreme Court decisionrepeal n
Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam-Webster. 1996.
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abolish, abrogare, abrogate, annul, avoid, cancel, countermand, declare null and void, delete, eliminate, formally withdraw, invalidate, make void, negate, nullify, obliterate, officially withdraw, override, overrule, quash, recall, render invalid, rescind, rescindere, retract, reverse, revoke, set aside, vacate, void, withdraw
associated concepts: repeal a bylaw, repeal a law, repeal a statute, repeal by implication
foreign phrases:
- Leges posteriores priores contrarias abrogant. — Subsequent laws repeal prior laws that are repugnant to them.- Jura eodem modo destituuntur quo constituuntur. — Laws are abrogated by the same means by which they are enactedII index abate (extinguish), abatement (extinguishment), abolish, abolition, abrogate (rescind), adeem, ademption, annul, cancel, cancellation, countermand, defeasance, discharge (annulment), discharge (release from obligation), discharge (release from obligation), discontinue (abandon), dissolution (termination), invalidate, negate, negation, nullify, overrule, quash, renege, repudiate, repudiation, rescind, rescision, retraction, reversal, revocation, revoke, supersede, vacate (void), withdraw
Burton's Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006
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v.To revoke or annul a law.n.repeal
The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008.
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To annul an existing law by passage of a repealing statute or by public vote on a referendum. Repeal of Constitutional provisions require an amendment.Category: Small Claims Court & Lawsuits
Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary. Gerald N. Hill, Kathleen Thompson Hill. 2009.
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1 n. The annullment of an existing law by the enactment of a new law. If the new law declares the old law to be revoked, the repeal is express. If the new law has provisions that contradict the old law so that both cannot logically exist together, the new law takes precedence and the repeal is implied.2 v. The act of annulling a law.
Webster's New World Law Dictionary. Susan Ellis Wild. 2000.
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The annulment or abrogation of a previously existing statute by the enactment of a later law that revokes the former law.
Dictionary from West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005.
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The annulment or abrogation of a previously existing statute by the enactment of a later law that revokes the former law.
Short Dictionary of (mostly American) Legal Terms and Abbreviations.
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1) v. to annul an existing law, by passage of a repealing statute, or by public vote on a referendum. Repeal of constitutional provisions requires an amendment, as with the repeal of prohibition in which the 21st Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment.2) n. the act of annulling a statute.
Law dictionary. EdwART. 2013.
