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overrule

overrule 1 : to rule against [the objection was overruled] compare

Overruling, is an act of superior jurisdiction. A precedent overruled is

Exerting controlling power as an overruling Providence

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Overrule, to set aside the authority of a former decision.

Prospective overruling, implies an earlier judicial decision on the same issue which

One who or that which controls governs or determines

have had notice. To that extent Patman v. Harland is overruled but the principle remains that a purchaser will be affected

see Boulter v. Kent Justices, 1897, AC 556, reversing and overruling decisions of the Court of Appeal.

originally. But the supreme appellate Court will not shrink from overruling a decision, or series of decisions, which establish a doctrine

with a particular area or person only, and therefore not overruled by the general terms of a general Act. See Taylor

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