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Definition of Revisory
1. a. Having the power or purpose to revise; revising.
Definition of Revisory
1. Adjective. Having the power or purpose to revise. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Revisory
1. pertaining to revision [adj] - See also: revision
Lexicographical Neighbors of Revisory
Literary usage of Revisory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Standards of American Legislation: An Estimate of Restrictive and by Ernst Freund (1917)
"In the United States the governor has a certain revisory power incidental to ...
But at best all these revisory functions cannot cure a bill that is badly ..."
2. The Law of Interstate Commerce and Its Federal Regulation by Frederick Newton Judson (1905)
"The revisory power of the Court.—The Circuit Court has no revisory power over
the orders of the Commission; that is, the court can only enforce or refuse to ..."
3. A Treatise on Federal Practice, Civil and Criminal: Including Practice in by Roger Foster (1920)
"Although the point is doubtful, in two cases in the First Circuit commitments in
contempt proceedings were reviewed by revisory petitions,1 but when part 14 ..."
4. A Treatise on Federal Practice, Civil and Criminal: Including Practice in by Roger Foster (1920)
"Review by revisory petitions of commitments for contempt in bankruptcy proceedings.
Although the point is doubtful, in two cases in the First Circuit ..."
5. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"It is >nly when, in such я case, the decision is against the authority that this
court has revisory jurisdiction. The writ of error mu»t, therefore, ..."
6. A Treatise on the Law and Practice of Bankruptcy: Under the Act of Congress ...by Henry Campbell Black by Henry Campbell Black (1922)
"revisory Jurisdiction of Circuit Court of Appeals. 46. Appellate and revisory
Jurisdiction Contrasted; Choice of Remedies. 47. ..."
7. Commentaries on the Law of Municipal Corporations by John Forrest Dillon (1911)
"... the amount with interest shall be paid-to the person interested, on demand."
' '•• /.•*. " "4-v § 1047 (611). revisory Proceedings; Certiorari. ..."
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