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To recall; to summon again, as persons.
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To recall, as a deed, will, law, or statute; to revoke; to rescind or abrogate by authority, as by act of the legislature; as, to repeal a law.
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Recall, as from exile.
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Revocation; abrogation; as, the repeal of a statute; the repeal of a law or a usage.
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To rescind or annul by authoritative act.
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A method by which a legislative action is revoked or annulled.
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vt. to withdraw officially or formally; revoke; cancel; annul
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the act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation
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annul by recalling or rescinding; "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence"
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The act of making a law or regulation no longer valid and enforceable. This is usually done through passing an amendment or law that repeals a current law or regulation.
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To cancel (normally a law).
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A method by which legislative action is revoked or abrogated.
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The abrogation of an existing law by a legislative act.
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The deletion by law of an entire section, subsection, or paragraph of language from the Florida Statutes.
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to eliminate a law, or section of a law, by an act of the Legislature.
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Cancel• Government's Rights
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To officially withdraw a law.
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the removal of a section of law from the Oklahoma Statutes by the Legislature
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To revoke an existing law.
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To cancel or take back a law (or Constitutional amendment) that's been enacted.
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The method by which a previous statute is rescinded.
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The method by which a previousstatute is rescinded.
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A repeal is the removal or reversal of a law. This is generally done when a law is no longer effective, or it is shown that a law is having far more negative consequences than were originally envisioned.
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