Ineffectible - Law Dictionary Search Results
Lame Duck Session
during the period between election and the inauguration of a succession, Webster's American Dictionary, p. 734. Is an ineffective, helpless or disable session, Random House Dictionary of the English Language, Jess Stein and Laurence Urdang, p. 803.
Interpretation of Statute
should be slow to adopt a construction which tends to make any part of the statute meaningless or ineffective. Thus, an attempt must always be made to reconcile the relevant provisions so as to advance the remedy
Piffle
To be sequeamish or delicate hence to act or talk triflingly or ineffectively to twaddle piddle
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Influenza
caused by several forms of RNA virus which mutate readily and thereby render vaccines prepared against older forms ineffective often requiring a new form of vaccine for each new outbreak
supersede
place of in authority : preempt override 3 : to take the place of and render null or ineffective
deactivate
To make inactive to render ineffective as to deactivate a bomb to deactivate a machine to deactivate the alarm
vitiate
vitiate -at·ed -at·ing : to make ineffective [fraud s a contract]
suspend
a privilege, office, or function 2 a : to stop temporarily [ trading] b : to make temporarily ineffective [ a license] c : stay [ a hearing] d : to defer until a later time see
lapse
an insurance policy because of nonpayment of premiums or nonrenewal vb lapsed laps·ing vi : to terminate, become ineffective, or fail [the bequest lapsed when the son died before the father] [allowed the insurance policy to ]
effective
revocation of the contract] 2 : capable of bringing about an effect [ assistance of counsel] see also ineffective assistance of counsel 3 : being in effect 4 of a rate of interest : equal to the
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