Revisory

Word REVISORY
Character 8
Hyphenation re vi so ry
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Revisory"

What do we mean by revisory?

Of, relating to, effecting, or having the power of revision. adjective

Having power to revise; effecting revision; revising.

Having the power or purpose to revise; revising. adjective

Having the power or purpose to revise. adjective

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The word "revisory" in example sentences

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. ❋ Karl Marx (1850)

If I had the knack, it would be something performed entirely apart from my serious work – just as my present revisory activities are. ❋ Theodora Goss (2009)

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". ❋ Ron Buckmire (2007)

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. ❋ United States. Presidents. (N/A)

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. ❋ Edward Samuel Corwin (1920)

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 ❋ Edward Samuel Corwin (1920)

The Landgericht exercises a revisory jurisdiction over judgments of the Amtsgerichte, and possesses a more extended original jurisdiction in both civil and criminal matters. ❋ Frederic Austin Ogg (1914)

The Lords of Trade and Plantations would have rightly thought such a step hardly consistent with the maintenance of their revisory and controlling powers. ❋ Simeon E. Baldwin (1883)

This Board has full Legislative powers, the Legislature being only revisory of its acts. ❋ Unknown (1875)

In view of the impaired financial resources of Venezuela consequent upon the recent revolution there, a modified arrangement for the satisfaction of the awards of the late revisory claims commission, in progressive installments, has been assented to, and payments are being regularly made thereunder. ❋ Grover Cleveland (1872)

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. ❋ John Fiske (1871)

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. ❋ Henry Chadwick (1866)

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. ❋ Virginia (1864)

LL. D., a member of the revisory commission, will be read with interest: ❋ Matilda Joslyn Gage (1863)

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 ❋ Jefferson Davis (1848)

Of course I must practice a general directory and revisory power in the matter. ❋ Abraham Lincoln (1837)

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