abolition of a law
91CORN-LAW RHYMER, THE — , EBENEZER ELLIOTT (q.v. ELLIOTT, EBENEZER) who, in a volume of poems, denounced the corn laws and contributed to their abolition …
92fugitive slave law — Acts of Congress passed in 1793 and 1850 (prior to abolition of slavery) providing for the surrender and deportation of slaves who escaped from their masters and fled into the territory of another state, generally a free state …
93fugitive slave law — Acts of Congress passed in 1793 and 1850 (prior to abolition of slavery) providing for the surrender and deportation of slaves who escaped from their masters and fled into the territory of another state, generally a free state …
94letters of abolition — (Civil law.) Letters whereby a punishment for crime was remitted; but the infamy remained unless the letters had been issued before sentence …
95abolish — abol·ish vt: to end the observance or effect of: annul Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. abolish …
96discharge — dis·charge 1 /dis chärj, dis ˌchärj/ vt 1: to release from an obligation: as a: to relieve of a duty under an instrument (as a contract or a negotiable instrument); also: to render (an instrument) no longer enforceable a formal instrument...may… …
97cancellation — can·cel·la·tion also can·cel·a·tion n 1: the act or an instance of cancelling 2: a mark made to cancel something (as a check) Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …
98dissolution — dis·so·lu·tion /ˌdi sə lü shən/ n: the act or process of ending: as a: the termination of an organized body (as a court) b: the ending of a partnership relationship caused by the withdrawal of one of the partners from the relationship c: the… …
99revocation — rev·o·ca·tion /ˌre və kā shən/ n: an act or instance of revoking Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. revocation …
100repudiation — re·pu·di·a·tion /ri ˌpyü dē ā shən/ n: the rejection or renunciation of a duty or obligation (as under a contract); esp: anticipatory repudiation ◇ A party aggrieved by a repudiation may consider a repudiated contract to have been breached and… …
