revocation

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the act of reversing or annulling

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Synonyms for revocation

the state of being cancelled or annulled

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the act (by someone having the authority) of annulling something previously done

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By dovetailing federal creditor avoidance actions with the state revocatory action, the court provided a scholarly inquiry evocative of judgments rendered by the early United States Supreme Court long before the current Supreme Court exhibited allergies to foreign law.
Though In re Goldberg concentrated upon the revocatory action, its analysis of the insolvency criterion and role of bankruptcy law in creditor actions apply equally to the oblique action.
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Doctrinally, the oblique action and the revocatory action had
Louisiana's original regulation of the revocatory action
Civil recodification in an anglophone mixed jurisdiction: a bricoleur's playbook
The agreement could usher in a prolonged period of revocatory referendums on other elected officials--deputies, mayors, governors--that could change the political map of the nation.
Deputy Alejandro Armas, an opposition representative on the Mesa de Negociacion y Acuerdos, said that the agreement "is not all that the opposition wanted, but it is a step in the right direction because it makes a revocatory referendum possible."
VENEZUELA: GOVERNMENT AND OPPOSITION SIGN AGREEMENT ON REFERENDUM
On April 11, the government and the opposition agreed to an electoral solution to the political crisis, which could bring a revocatory referendum.
VENEZUELA: AGREEMENT REACHED ON REFERENDUM FOR NEW ELECTIONS
To date, the dialogue has only come up with a short list of possible electoral options, including the consultative and revocatory referendums, a constitutional amendment that would shorten the current government's term, or convening a Constituent Assembly like the one that drew up a new Constitution in 1999.
VENEZUELA: OPPOSITION STRIKE CONTINUES AMID RISING TENSIONS
He says opponents must wait until August 2003, the earliest date the Constitution would allow a revocatory referendum on his rule.
VENEZUELA: MARCHES IN SUPPORT OF AND AGAINST PRESIDENT HUGO CHAVEZ SHOW POLARIZED SOCIETY
A "revocatory" referendum would need at least 25% of the electorate to participate for the results to be binding, and the total in favor of Chavez's departure would have to be more than the total votes that put him in office.
VENEZUELA: O.A.S. DIALOGUE CONTINUES AMID CLASHES
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