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revoke re·voked re·vok·ing : to annul by recalling or taking back: as a : to destroy the effectiveness of (a will) by executing another or by an act of destruction (as tearing or crossing out) b : to put an end to (a trust) c : to withdraw (an offer) esp. before acceptance d : to withdraw (acceptance of goods) by refusing to keep goods because of nonconformity see also rejection e : to take back (as a license or a grant of parole or probation) esp. because of misconduct re·vok·er n ...
Revoke
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....
Revoker
One who revokes...
Republication of Wills
Republication of Wills, a second publication after cancelling or revoking.The Wills Act, 1837 (7 Wm. 4 & 1 Vict. c. 26), provides in s. 22 as follows:-No will or codicil, or any part thereof, which shall be in any manner revoked, shall be revived otherwise than by the re-execution thereof, or by a codicil executed in manner hereinbefore required, and showing an intention to revive the same; and when any will or codicil which shall be partly revoked and afterwards wholly revoked, shall be revived, such revival shall not extend to so much thereof as shall have been revoked before the revocation of the whole thereof, unless an intention to the contrary be shown.Every will re-executed, or republished, or revived by any codicil, shall for the purposes of the Wills Act be deemed to have been made at the time at which the same shall be so re-executed, republished, or revived (s. 34).Every will re-executed, or republished, or revived by any codicil, shall for the purposes of the Wills Act be d...
Revocation of Will
Revocation of Will. There are four modes in which a will can be revoked, viz.: (1) by another will or express declaration in, or by intention to be inferred from another properly executed testamentary instrument; (2) by burning or other act done animo revocandi; (3) by the disposition of the property by the testator in his lifetime; (4) by marriage, except in certain cases of testamentary appointment. By the first and third of these modes, the will may be revoked either entirely or partially; by the second and last, the revocation will be total, unless under the provisions of the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 177, the will has been made in contemplation of a particular marriage, Sallis v. Jones, 1936 P. 43....
By-laws, or bye-laws
By-laws, or bye-laws [fr. bilagines, from by, Sax., pagus, civitas, and lagen, lex, Spelm.], the laws, regulations, and constitutions of corporations, for the government of their members. See per Lord Russell, C.J., in Kruse v. Johnson, (1898) 2 QB 91. They are binding, unless contrary to law, or unreasonable, and against the common benefit, and then they are void.No trading company is allowed to make by-laws which may affect the crown, or the common profit of the people under penalty of 40l., unless they be approved by the chancellor, treasurer, and chief justices, or the judges of assize, 19 Hen. 7, c. 7.County Councils and Borough Councils under Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51) (English) s. 249; may make by-laws for the good rule and government of the whole or any part of the county or borough, as the case may be, and for the prevention and suppression of nuisances; Provided that by-laws made under this section by a County Council shall not have effect in any borou...
Throughout
Throughout, means where a codicil revokes the appointment of an executor and substitutes another person in his stead and goes on to declare that the Will shall be construed as though the name of such other person had throughout the Will been used instead of that of the person whose executorship was revoked, that generally will not revoke personal benefits given by the Will to the person whose executorship is revoked, Freeman (in re:), (1910) 1 Ch. 681....
Set aside
Set aside, is to revoke or quash. It means the interim order has come to an end and has become inoperative, Bileshwar Khan Udyog Khedut Shahakari Mandali Ltd. v. Union of India, AIR 1999 SC 1198. [See Levy Sugar Price Equalisation Act (31 of 1976), ss. 3(3), 2(b)(ii)]...
Revocation of agency
Revocation of agency. An agency is dissolved or determined in several ways:-(I) by the act of the principal, either(a) Express, as(1) By direct and formal writing, publicly a advertised;(2) By informal writing to the agent privately;(3) By parol; or(b) Implied from circumstances as by appointing another person to do the same act, where the authority of both would be incompatible.The exceptions to the power of the principal to revoke his agent's authority at mere pleasure are--(1) When the principal has expressly stipulated that the authority shall be irrevocable, and the agent has also an interest in its execution.(2) Where an authority or power is coupled with an interest, or is given for a valuable consideration, or is a part of a security, unless there is an express stipulation that it shall be revocable.(3) When an agent's act in pursuance of his authority has become obligatory, for nemo potest mutare consilium suum in alterius injuriam.(II.) By the agent's giving notice to his pri...
Revocation
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 wh...
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