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abrogate
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abrogate
Withdraw, rescind, revoke, or cancel. Common usage implies an act done in a one-sided or high-handed manner, but this is not necessary to the definition.


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As early as the ninth century, Muslim scholar Ibn Qutayba warned: "The hadith is subject to many vicissitudes, due to the negligence of those handing it down, confused explanations, the abrogations which may have occurred, the unreliability of informants, and the existence of two contradictory hadiths.
This was evident in a number of cases in which corporations alleged violations of the Contracts Clause in state legislatures' abrogations of promises in corporate charters to limit taxation.
As outrageous as these specific abrogations of justice are, it is obviously not the specific instances that are of the most concern.
 
 
 
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