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Definition of Revoking
1. revoke [v] - See also: revoke
Lexicographical Neighbors of Revoking
Literary usage of Revoking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1888)
"Being, therefore, in their origin an exercise of his personal prerogative, the
power of revoking them, so far as they could be revoked at all, ..."
2. The Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament (1906)
"Copy presented, of Order in Council of 23rd October, 1905, revoking a proviso in
paragraph 24 of the Regulations scheduled to the Order in Council of 24th ..."
3. A Treatise on Wills by Thomas Jarman (1844)
"SECTION V. By a subsequent revoking or Inconsistent Witt or Codicil. IN considering
this head of Revocation, as applicable to wills made before the year ..."
4. A Treatise on Wills by Thomas Jarman, Joseph Fitz Randolph, William Talcott (1880)
"... that in the two cases suggested by Lord *Ken- yon, the alleged revoking act
... of the actual intention to control the revoking effect of the codicil. ..."
5. Laws of Business for All the States and Territories of the Union and the by Theophilus Parsons (1909)
"Proxy, revoking all Previous Proxies. Know all Ken by these Presents, That I,
the undersigned, stockholder in the (name of the company) do hereby appoint my ..."
6. A Treatise on the Law of Executors and Administrators by Edward Vaughan Williams, Roland Lomax Vaughan Williams, Joseph Fitz Randolph, William Talcott (1895)
"... or otherwise destroying the same by the testator, or by some person in his
presence and by his direction, with the intention of revoking the same. ..."
7. A Treatise on New Trial and Appellate Practice: Presenting and Illustrating by Thomas Carl Spelling (1903)
"A judgment or order against, or in favor of, directing the partition, sale, or
conveyance of real property. § 514. Granting, refusing to grant, revoking, ..."
8. The Statutes at Large and Treaties of the United States of America from by United States (1859)
"revoking the Exequatur of the British Consul at New York. May 28,1656. FRANKLIN
PIERCE, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OP AMERICA. ..."