0 present participle of rescind
1 to make a law, agreement, order, or decision no longer have any (legal) power:
The policy of charging air travellers for vegetarian meals proved unpopular and has already been rescinded.
Would the emperor's second decree rescinding the schools reach everywhere right away?
It means rescinding laws retrospectively, which undermines the principle of legal certainty.
Different considerations arise on the rescinding or diminishing of a general improvement area.
The myth is that by rescinding the resolution we shall be attacking the low paid, or at least removing from them a real protection.
I have no intention of rescinding the scheme.
The court cannot make an order rescinding something which cannot be rescinded.
I am no friend of sanctions, and in today's conditions there are very strong arguments in favour of rescinding them.
I cannot understand why he did not propose today one of the measures that the committee recommends, namely the rescinding of the decision on gelatin.
