Look up: repeal

1. Repeal
   Re·peal' transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Repealed (-p?ld'); present participle & verbal noun Repealing .] [ Old French repeler to call back, French rappeler ; ...
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2. Repeal
   Re·peal' noun 1. Recall, as from exile. [ Obsolete] « The tribunes are no soldiers; and their people Will be as rash in the repeal , as hasty To expel him thence.» Shak. 2. Revocation; abrogation; as, the
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3. repeal
   1. To recall; to summon again, as persons. 'The banished Bolingbroke repeals himself, And with uplifted arms is safe arrived.' (Shak) ... 2. To recall, as a deed, will, law, or statute; to revoke; to rescind or abrogate by authority, as by act of the legislature; as, to repeal a law. ... 3. To suppr...
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4. Repeal
   • (v. t.) To recall; to summon again, as persons. • (n.) Revocation; abrogation; as, the repeal of a statute; the repeal of a law or a usage. • (n.) Recall, as from exile. • (v. t.) To suppress; to repel. • (v. t.) To recall, as a deed, will, law, or statute; to revoke; to r...
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5. Repeal
   The abrogation or destruction of a law by a legislative act. A repeal is express; as when it is literally declared by a subsequent law or implied, when the new law contains provisions contrary to or irreconcilable with those of the former law. A law may be repealed by implication, by an affirmative as well as by a negative statute, if the subst...
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6. Repeal
   (V) Repeal is the process of negating an order, law, statute etc as per the provisions contained in the statue to withdraw such a law, order etc to make it ineffective. So every ACT contains a provision for repealing earlier acts to avoid conflicting provisions
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7. repeal
   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of constitutional provisions requires an amendment, as with the repeal of prohibition in which the 21st Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment. 2) n. the act of annulling a statute.
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8. Repeal
   A `repeal` is the removal or reversal of a law. This is generally done when a law is no longer effective, or it is shown that a law is having far more negative consequences than were originally envisioned. If a campaign for the repeal of a particular law gains particular moment, an advocate of the r...
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