0 past simple and past participle of repeal --
1 If a government repeals a law, it causes that law no longer to have any legal force. --
The first two were passed in the wake of financial crises and repealed within a few years because of complaints by creditors about high expenses and low dividends.
Consequently, they were favoured for adoption in ordinary brickyards when the excise duties on bricks were finally repealed in 1850.
From the year 1920, when those legislative measures were repealed, the large landowners once again looked upon the flour cooperatives with scepticism.
The fellowship was restored to him years later after the religious tests were repealed.
In practice these taxes had yielded little or no revenue and were repealed in 1920.
Consider those counter-to-fact situations in which the rules in question are repealed or have never been enacted.
A ban was issued forthwith, but for unclear reasons it soon had to be repealed.
This rule restricting membership to male household heads has since been repealed.
