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REPEALING

Volume 17 · 82 words · 1815 Edition

in Law, the revoking or annulling of a statute or the like.

No act of parliament shall be repealed the same session in which it was made. A deed or will may be repealed in part, and stand good for the rest. It is held that a pardon of felony may be repealed on disproving the suggestion thereof.

REPPELLENTS, in Medicine, remedies which are supposed to drive back a morbid humour into the mass of blood, from whence it was unduly secreted.