unrepealedadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnrᵻˈpiːld/, U.S. /ˌənrəˈpild/ Not repealed; unrevoked, unrescinded.
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society > law > rule of law > [adjective] > legally valid > not rescinded
unrepealed1479
unabrogated1535
unreduced1573
unviciate1593
unrescinded1683
1479 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 417 I shall..meyntene all laudable ordinaunceȝ..vnreuokid and vnrepelid.
1580 W. Fulke T. Stapleton & Martiall Confuted 182 But where Martiall taketh vpon him to charge vs with a statute in force against the marriage of Priests in England, vnrepealed, he is misconceiued.
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1126 Say a man did abolish lawes, and yet withall leave behind unrepealed and uncondemned the doctrines and books of Parmenides.
1649 J. Milton Tenure of Kings 13 Which Edict of his remaines yet unrepeald in the Code of Justinian.
1712 R. Blackmore Creation i. 40 Could they [sc. moist elements] dispense to lie below the Land, With Nature's Law, and unrepeal'd Command.
1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xlviii. 180 The resolutions..stand upon your journals, uncontroverted and unrepealed.
1823 G. S. Faber Treat. Christian Dispensations I. v. 180 That the original sentence continued wholly unaltered and unrepealed.
1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn II. xlii. 85 An unrepealed decree of the senate.
1964 J. Stone Legal Syst. & Lawyers' Reasonings ii. 94 Unrepealed rules would still be legal imperatives.
2003 Guardian (Nexis) 27 June 7 It is most undesirable that obsolete statutes remain unrepealed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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