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Eescission

A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

A cutting off; an abrogation or cancellation; an avoidance; as applied to contracts, strictly an act in which the parties concur, a cancellation by agreement, but commonly usgd to express an act of withdrawal or avoidance by one of the parties, as for fraud of the other.