revisory
Americanadjective
adjective
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Origin of revisory
Example Sentences
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The revisory powers of the Judiciary over the acts of Congress were not given in order to excuse the Congress from exercising its preliminary judgment upon the constitutionality of its own acts.
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Bishop Edwin Vincent O'Hara of Kansas City, head of the revisory committee, says that by 1944 U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
The revisory commission, appointed by the General Convention, is headed by the Rt.
From Time Magazine Archive
LL.D., a member of the revisory commission, will be read with interest: Mrs. M. J. Gage: Dear Madame:—The passage in John viii. 1-11, is not in the Alexandrian, nor is it in the Sinaitic, Vatican, and Ephraim Codices.
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The Landgericht exercises a revisory jurisdiction over judgments of the Amtsgerichte, and possesses a more extended original jurisdiction in both civil and criminal matters.
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