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Revocation, includes cancellation of all orders invalid as well as valid, Hadibandu Das v. District Magistrate, AIR 1969 SC 43 (48). [Preventive Detention Act, 1950, s. 13(2)]

The undoing of a thing granted, or a destroying or making void of some deed that had existence until the act of revocation made it void. It may be either general, of all acts and things done before; or special, to revoke a particular thing, 5 Rep. 90.

The word revocation' means annulling, rescinding, withdrawing. In the facts and circumstances of the case orders of release cancelling orders of detention amount to revocation of orders of detention, Pradip Kumar Das v. State of West Bengal, AIR 1974 SC 2151 (2153): (1975) 3 SCC 335: (1975) 1 SCR 327. [MISA., s. 14(2)]

Revocation is a process of recall of what had been done, Ibrahim Bachu Bafan v. State of Gujarat, AIR 1985 SC 697 (700): (1985) 2 SCC 24: (1985) 2 SCR 891.

The word revocation is only apposite when it is intended to repeal, annul or withdraw some order which had already become effective, Karnal Distillery Co. Ltd. v. State of Haryana, (1970) 1 SCC 116 (120).

An annulment, cancellation, or reversal usu. of an act or power, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1321