Revise
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
To correct upon a second examination, as to revise the statutes, to revise a judgment. Revise, somewhat more strongly than review, imports amending, correcting, rearranging. Both terms import a second examination for the purpose of Revised statutes. For the distinction between the force of revised statutes and of " code," see Codb.
Revising barristers
Barristers appointed every year to revise the register of parliatnentary electors in each district. They hold open courts for the purpose. (2 Steph. Com. 355.) From their decision there is an appeal, — formerly, to the court of common pleas, now, to the common pleas division of the high court of justice. (3 Steph. Com. 834.) Mozley ^ W.