All 8 Uses of
abrogate
in
Leviathan
- For the same reason, none can abrogate a Law made, but the Soveraign; because a Law is not abrogated, but by another Law, that forbiddeth it to be put in execution.†
Chpt 2.26
- For the same reason, none can abrogate a Law made, but the Soveraign; because a Law is not abrogated, but by another Law, that forbiddeth it to be put in execution.†
Chpt 2.26
- These were Lawes, at first, by the vertue of the Soveraign Power residing in the people; and such of them as by the Emperours were not abrogated, remained Lawes by the Authority Imperiall.†
Chpt 2.26
- For such of them as were not abrogated by the Emperours, remained Lawes by the Authority Imperiall.†
Chpt 2.26
- Not Fundamentall is that the abrogating whereof, draweth not with it the dissolution of the Common-Wealth; such as are the Lawes Concerning Controversies between subject and subject.†
Chpt 2.26
- For to say all the people of a Common-wealth, have Liberty in any case whatsoever; is to say, that in such case, there hath been no Law made; or else having been made, is now abrogated.†
Chpt 2.26
- Besides, when the Soveraign commandeth any thing to be done against his own former Law, the Command, as to that particular fact, is an abrogation of the Law.†
Chpt 2.27 *
- It is true, that Soveraigns are all subjects to the Lawes of Nature; because such lawes be Divine, and cannot by any man, or Common-wealth be abrogated.†
Chpt 2.29
Definition:
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(abrogate) to abolish (do away with) something