The recall of some pow-er, authority, or thing granted, or a de-atroying or making void of some deed that had existence until the act of revocation tnade it void. It may be either general, of all acts and things done before; or special, to revoke a particular thlng. 5 Coke, 90. See wilmington City Ry. Co. v. wilmington & B. S. Ry. Co., 8 Del. Ch. 468, 46 Atl. 12
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
