Vacate
Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Abbott (1879)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
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. VACATIO (Lat.)
In the civil law. Exemption; immunity; privilege; dispensation; exemption from the burden of office. Calv. Lex.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
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. &
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
1. To annul; to declare void; as to vacate a proceeding for irregularity, or because of fraud or surprise. 2. To leave empty or unoccupied. When the occupant of a dwelling-house moves out with his family, taking part of his furniture and all the wearing-apparel of his family, and makes his place of abode in another town, although he may have an intention of returning in eight or ten months, such dwelling-house, while thus deserted, must be regarded as vacated. Sleeper v. N. H. Fire Ins. Co., 56 N. H. 401.