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The act of annulling, canceling, or quashing.

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  • The appeals court, what they call the cassation (ph) panel, has spoken and so the legal process is complete.
  • Jtili plans to appeal the case to the Saudi court of cassation.
  • The highest tribunal is the court of cassation, sitting at Sofia, and composed of a president, two vice-presidents and nine judges.
  • After the close of the National Assembly he was nominated one of the judges of the newly instituted court of cassation from October 1791 to
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