单词 | retrotraction |
释义 | † retrotractionn. Law. Obsolete. rare. The action or an act or revoking something. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > [noun] > taking back or again retaking1436 gain-taking1538 reassumption1611 replevin1619 withdrawment1640 retrotraction1673 resumption1694 retrosusception1827 take-back1873 snatch-back1905 1673 in M. P. Brown Suppl. Dict. Decisions Court of Session (1826) III. 79 A retrotraction of the real right to the inhibition and fiction, supposing them both of one date, is a motion that surely no lawyer can be guilty of. 1870 F. J. Tomkins & H. D. Jencken Compend. Mod. Rom. Law ii. x. 72 Acquiescence may occur, however, by virtue of the Ratification of one's own prior acts in some business in which one has the option either of rescinding or revoking the same. In the latter instance Retrotraction takes place. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online September 2020). < n.1673 |
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