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Cassation

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In French law. A decision emanating from the sovereign authority, by which a decree or judgment in the court of last resort is broken or annulled.

See Cour de Cassation.