Vacate
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
To annul; to render an act void: as, to vacate an entry which has been made on a record when the court has been imposed upon by fraud or taken by surprise. A street is vacated when its character as such is destroyed, and it is thereafter held in private ownership the same as the adjacent lots to which it has accreted; Atchison, T. &