The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cassation \Cas*sa"tion\, n. [F. cassation. See Cass.] The act of annulling.
A general cassation of their constitutions.
--Motley.
Court of cassation, the highest court of appeal in France, which has power to quash (Casser) or reverse the decisions of the inferior courts.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"anullment," early 15c., from Old French cassation, from casser, from Late Latin cassare, from Latin quassare (see quash).
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. The abrogation of a law by a higher authority; annulment. Etymology 2
n. (context music English) piece of instrumental music of the eighteenth century similar to the serenade, and often performed out of doors
Wikipedia
Cassation is a minor musical genre related to the serenade and divertimento. In the mid-to-late 18th century, cassations commonly comprised loosely assembled sets of short movements intended for outdoor performance by orchestral or chamber ensembles. The genre was popular in southern German-speaking lands. Other synonymous titles used by German-speaking composers and cataloguers included Cassatio, Cassatione and Kassation. An equivalent Italian term was Cassazione. The genre is occasionally alluded to in the titles of some twentieth-century compositions.
Usage examples of "cassation".
His cassations, quartets and trios may be compared to a pure, clear stream of water, the surface now rippled by a gentle breeze from the south, and anon breaking into agitated billows, but without ever leaving its proper channel and appointed course.
Library of the Court of Cassation, a large square room lighted by two windows overlooking the great inner yard of the Conciergerie, furnished with a few leather chairs, a large table covered with green cloth, and with law books lining the walls from the floor to the ceiling.
President, four Judges, and two Assistants, chosen by the Court of Cassation from among its own members and renewed every year.
Quesnault, a Liberal, a Deputy, a Public Functionary, Advocate-General, a Conservative, learned, obedient, had attained by making a stepping-stone of each of these attributes, to the Criminal Chamber of the Court of Cassation, where he was known as one of the most severe members.
Bernard, Recorder of the Court of Cassation, and they sent to fetch him, and while waiting requested the librarian, M.
Bernard, the Recorder of the Court of Cassation, should fulfil the duties of Recorder, and in order to proceed further, according to the terms of the aforesaid Article 68 of the Constitution, the Court will adjourn until to-morrow, the 3d of December, at noon.
While these events were taking place in the Library, close by, in the former great Chamber of the Parliament, the Court of Cassation was sitting in judgment as usual, without noticing what was happening so near at hand.
Quesnault to the Recorder's Office, and immediately entered upon the Register of the Secret Deliberations of the Court of Cassation, the High Court not having a Special Register, and having decided, from its creation, to use the Register of the Court of Cassation.
Does this page of the Register of the Court of Cassation exist at the present time?
Castaing was not ashamed to appeal to the Court of Cassation for a revision of his trial, but on December 4 his appeal was rejected.
The Court of Cassation, to which he had made the usual appeal after condemnation, decided that the proceedings at Versailles had been vitiated by the fact that the evidence of Gabrielle Fenayrou's second lover had not been taken ORALLY, within the requirements of the criminal code.
De Crouseilhes, ex-Councillor of the Court of Cassation, ex-Minister (of the Basses-Pyrenees).