Cancellation

cancellation
    n 1: the act of cancelling; calling off some arrangement
    2: the speech act of revoking or annulling or making void
    

Cancellation \Can`cel*la"tion\, n. [L. cancellatio: cf. F.
   cancellation.]
   1. The act, process, or result of canceling; as, the
      cansellation of certain words in a contract, or of the
      contract itself.
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   2. (Math.) The operation of striking out common factors, in
      both the dividend and divisor.
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CANCELLATION. Its general acceptation, is the act of crossing a writing; it 
is used sometimes to signify the manual operation of tearing or destroying 
the instrument itself. Hyde v. Hyde, 1 Eq. Cas. Abr. 409; Rob. on Wills, 
367, n. 
     2. Cancelling a will, animo revocandi, is a revocation of it, and it is 
unnecessary to show a complete destruction or obliteration. 2 B. & B. 650; 3 
B. & A. 489; 2 Bl. R. 1043; 2 Nott & M'Cord, 272; Whart. Dig. Wills, c.; 4 
Mass. 462. When a duplicate has been cancelled, animo revocandi, it is the 
cancellation of both parts. 2 Lee, Ecc. R. 532. 
     3. But the mere act of cancelling a will is nothing, unless it be done 
animo revocandi, and evidence is admissible to show, quo animo, the testator 
cancelled it., 7 Johns. 394 2 Dall. 266; S. C. 2 Yeates, 170; 4 Serg. & 
Rawle, 297; cited 2 Dall. 267, n.; 3 Hen. & Munf. 502; Rob. on Wills, 365; 
Lovel, 178; Toll. on Ex'rs, Index, h.t.; 3 Stark. Ev. 1714; 1 Adams' Rep. 
529 Mass. 307; 5 Conn. 262; 4 Wend. 474; 4 Wend. 585; 1 Harr. & M'H. 162; 4 
Conn. 550; 8 Verm. 373; 1 N. H. Rep. 1; 4 N. H. Rep. 191; 2 Eccl. Rep. 23. 
     4. As to the effect of cancelling a deed, which has not been recorded, 
see 1 Adams' Rep. 1; Palm. 403; Latch. 226; Gilb. Law, Ev. 109, 110; 2 H. 
Bl. 263: 2 Johns. 87 1 Greenl. R. 78; 10 Mass. 403; 9 Pick. 105; 4 N. H. 
Rep. 191; Greenl. Ev. Sec. 265; 5 Conn. 262; 4 Conn. 450; 5 Conn. 86; 2 
John. R. 84; 4 Yerg. 375; 6 Mass. 24; 11 Mass. 337; 2 Curt. Ecc. R. 458. 
     5. As to when a court of equity will order an agreement or other 
instrument to be cancelled and delivered up, see 4 Bouv. Inst. n. 3917-22. 
    

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