Assembly, and, according to the Constitution, a three-fourths majority was requisite to revise and to call a revisory convention, they needed only to count their own votes to be certain of victory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte] Reference

If I had the knack, it would be something performed entirely apart from my serious work – just as my present revisory activities are.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-12-01] Reference

As to many of these minor matters, the function of the Commission might well be made revisory, and the primary responsibility delegated to subordinate officials after the practice long in vogue in the executive departments.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

In an unexpected turn, the archbishop of San Juan, González Robert Nieves, will appear today for the second time before the revisory commission of the Civil Code to propose a variant of the unions in fact, that he defined as "domestic unions".    From Wordnik.com.  [Update on gay rights in Puerto Rico] Reference

LL. D., a member of the revisory commission, will be read with interest.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I] Reference

Of course I must practice a general directory and revisory power in the matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 6: 1862-1863] Reference

This Board has full Legislative powers, the Legislature being only revisory of its acts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland] Reference

Stronger than a "line-item" veto, this veto permits the president to act as if he were a unipersonal revisory legislative chamber.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fruits and Votes] Reference

H. Byrne, the president of the Brooklyn club, who was indefatigable in doing the large amount of revisory work which was thrown upon the committee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spalding's Baseball Guide and Official League Book for 1889] Reference

The Lords of Trade and Plantations would have rightly thought such a step hardly consistent with the maintenance of their revisory and controlling powers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Judiciary] Reference

The Americans had been used to having the acts of their popular assemblies reviewed by a council, and so they retained this revisory body as an upper house.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Critical Period of American History] Reference

The Landgericht exercises a revisory jurisdiction over judgments of the Amtsgerichte, and possesses a more extended original jurisdiction in both civil and criminal matters.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Governments of Europe] Reference

The said Roanoke female college shall be under the immediate control and management of the said board of trustees and their successors, subject to the revisory control of the stockholders in a general meeting, as herein above expressed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Virginia, Passed at Session of 1863-4, in the Eighty-Eighth Year of the Commonwealth.] Reference

The judges of the circuit courts in each of these districts refused to administer the pensions, because the revisory powers of Congress and the Secretary of War were regarded as making the administration of the law nonjudicial in nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952] Reference

All of these rulings with respect to the vesting of revisory powers in the courts of the District carried the qualification that revisory actions and interlocutory opinions, as nonjudicial functions, were not reviewable on appeal to the Supreme.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952] Reference

Union is composed of three departments, of which the Congress is the legislative branch, and which is checked by the revisory power of the judiciary, and the veto power of the Executive, and, above all, is expressly limited in legislation to powers expressly delegated by the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government] Reference

ROBERTSON moved to amend the bill in the 2d section, by striking out the words "shall be imprisoned in the county or corporation jail for such period, not exceeding one month, as the court martial may determine, subject to the revisory action of the governor," and inserting "be punished as provided for in the case of enlisted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia, for the Session of 1863-64. Message of the Governor of Virginia, and Accompanying Documents.] Reference