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Abrogate

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

[Lat. abrogare, q. v.] To undo what has been done in passing a law; to annul a law by an act of the same power which made it; to annul by an authoritative act; to repeal. See Abrogare. Applied also to the abolition of established customs, by a different and long continued usage.