How To Use abrogate In A Sentence
- In the absence of a clear express intent to abrogate rights and obligations - rights of the highest importance to the individual - those rights remain in force.
- His bankruptcy or winding-up usually abrogates the agreement, and may restore to the bank its right to combine the accounts without notice.
- Largely as a result of these influential criticisms, the law was altered so that the requirement of intent was abrogated.
- The rule has been abrogated by mutual consent.
- Whatever the reason, the government has obligations under international law that it cannot abrogate.
- The pro-slavery compromise of the Constitution which required the rendition of fugitive slaves was abrogated.
- Soglia (Institut, Canon, II, 12) says "The law of tithes can never be abrogated by prescription or custom, if the ministers of the Church have no suitable and sufficient provision from other sources; because then the natural and divine law, which can neither be abrogated not antiquate, commands that the tithe be paid. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
- Section 1 of the Suicide Act 1961 abrogated the rule that made suicide criminal.
- Since 1991, the government has abrogated this responsibility.
- They have abrogated their duty to the country.
