Definition of "disaffirmance" []

• The act of disaffirming; denial. (noun)
• Overthrow or annulment by the decision of a superior tribunal. (noun)

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• "An eminent Judge in our own State once threw out the opinion that there existed in the Constitution no disaffirmance of the power of the legislature to take the property of an individual for _private uses_ with or without compensation."