Revoke - Definition - Law Dictionary Home Dictionary Definition revoke

Definition :

Revoke, carries within the idea of cancellation by the same power which originally acted and not to setting aside of an original order by higher forum of power or jurisdiction. It does not mean repudiation, Corpus Juris Secundum, 1952 Edn., Vol. 77.

Means an act of recalling or calling back, the act by which one having the right annuls something pre-viously done, Webster's Third New International Dictionary.

Means the recall of some authority or thing granted or a destroying or making void of some deed that had existence until the act of revocation made it void, Black's Law Dictionary.