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Repeal vs Revivor - What's the difference?

repeal | revivor |

As nouns the difference between repeal and revivor

is that repeal is an act or instance of repealing while revivor is (uk|legal) revival of a suit which is abated by the death or marriage of any of the parties.

As a verb repeal

is to cancel, invalidate, annul.

repeal

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To cancel, invalidate, annul.
    • to repeal a law
  • To recall; to summon (a person) again.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The banished Bolingbroke repeals himself, / And with uplifted arms is safe arrived.
  • To suppress; to repel.
  • * Milton
    • Whence Adam soon repealed / The doubts that in his heart arose.

    Synonyms

    * annul, cancel, invalidate, revoke, veto

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act or instance of repealing.

    • Anagrams

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    revivor

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, legal) revival of a suit which is abated by the death or marriage of any of the parties.
    • (Blackstone)
  • (Ireland, legal) revival into force of a statute which had previously been repealed
  • * 1962 Statute Law Revision (Pre-Union Irish Statutes) Act, 1962 ยง2(2) Irish Statute Book, No. 29 of 1962:
    • Where any enactment not repealed by this Act has been confirmed, revived or perpetuated by any enactment hereby repealed, such confirmation, revivor or perpetuation shall not be affected by the repeal.
    (Webster 1913) ----