Cassation Definition

kă-sāshən
noun
In France, abrogation or annulment, as of a court decision, by a higher court.
Webster's New World

(music) Piece of instrumental music of the eighteenth century similar to the serenade, and often performed out of doors.

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Other Word Forms of Cassation

Noun

Singular:
cassation
Plural:
cassations

Origin of Cassation

  • Middle English cassatioun from Old French cassation from Late Latin cassātiō cassātiōn- from cassātus past participle of cassāre to annul quash1

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French cassation, from Latin cassō (“destroy, annul”)

    From Wiktionary

  • Uncertain

    From Wiktionary

Cassation Sentence Examples

  • The cour de cassation can review the decision of any other tribunal, except administrative courts.

  • The Court of Cassation does not give the ultimate decision on a case; it pronounces, not on the question of fact, but on the legal principle at issue, or the competence of the court giving the original decision.

  • Italy has courts of cassation at Rome, Naples, Palermo, Ttirin, Florence, 20 appeal court districts, I62 tribunal districts and 1535 mandamenti, each with its own magistracy (pretura).

  • Appeal may be made from the sentences of the pretori to the tribunals, and from the tribunals to the courts of appeal; from the assize courts there is no appeal except on a point of form, which appeal goes to the court of cassation at Rome.

  • Even the first president of the Rome court of cassation only receives f6o0 a year.

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