Crossword clues for rescission
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rescission \Re*scis"sion\ (r?-s?zh"?n), n. [L. rescissio: cf. F. rescission. See Rescind.] The act of rescinding, abrogating, annulling, or vacating; as, the rescission of a law, decree, or judgment.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, "action of cutting off;" 1650s, "action of annulling," from Late Latin rescissionem (nominative rescisio) "annulment," noun of action from past participle stem of rescindere "to cut off; abolish" (see rescind).
Wiktionary
n. 1 An act of removing, taking away, or taking back. 2 (context legal English) The undoing of a contract; repeal.
WordNet
n. (law) the act of rescinding; the cancellation of a contract and the return of the parties to the positions they would have had if the contract had not been made; recission may be brought about by decree or by mutual consent [syn: recission]
Wikipedia
In contract law, rescission has been defined as the unmaking of a contract between parties. Rescission is the unwinding of a transaction. This is done to bring the parties, as far as possible, back to the position in which they were before they entered into a contract (the status quo ante).
Usage examples of "rescission".
By the time I got back to Washington, the Republicans had begun to move on their proposals, and I spent most of the rest of the month trying to beat them back, threatening to veto their rescission package, their attempts to weaken our clean water program, and the large cuts they had proposed in education, health care, and foreign aid.
GOP rescission package, because it cut too much out of education, national service, and the environment, while leaving untouched unnecessary highway demonstration projects, courthouses, and other federal buildings that were pet projects of Republican members.
I shall dispatch him from here to Constantinople, by fast dromo, to demand the rescission of this decree.
Yesterday, I sent you the paternity test rescission order along with a legal document forsaking all claim to the baby.
On his desk was the Order of Rescission that would invalidate all Slotter Key letters of marque and order all its privateers to cease operations.
They also have to give you a two-day remorse and rescission period if you sign.
This was the final day of the ten days allotted him for rescission under the terms of his contract with Meeks.
The GOP rescissions included the elimination of 15,000 AmeriCorps positions, 1.
Indeed, the Massachusetts rule seems to stop little short of the principle laid down by the English courts of equity, which has been criticised in an earlier Lecture, /2/ since most positive affirmations of facts would at least warrant a jury in finding that they were reasonably understood to be made as of the party's own knowledge, and might therefore warrant a rescission if they turned out to be untrue.