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Definition: CASSATION |
CASSATIONNoun1. The act of annulling. |
Date "CASSATION" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1908. (references) |
Etymology: Cassation \Cas*sa"tion\, noun. [French expression cassation. See Cass.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Literature | Cassation The court of cassation, in France, is the court which can casser (or quash) the judgment of other courts. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: CASSATION |
| English words defined with "CASSATION": Court of cassation. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "CASSATION" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (cassation). |
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Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The papers shall be returned under the aforesaid conditions for transfer without delay to the French Cour de Cassation, which shall be competent to decide them. (reference) |
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Civil Liberties | Egypt | In October 1999, the Court of Cassation had upheld an earlier court decision to lift the Government's sequestration of the Syndicate and to allow elections. (references) |
France | In June 2000, the Court of Cassation upheld a lower court order, and the statue was demolished on September 6. In April the press reported that software produced by Panda International was authored by a Scientologist. (references) | |
Economic History | Turkey | Judicial--Constitutional Court, Court of Cassation, Council of State, and other courts. (references) |
Human Rights | Iraq | Both come under a separate Supreme Court of Cassation. (references) |
Egypt | The Higher Judicial Council is a set body headed by the President of the Court of Cassation. (references) | |
Iraq | Defendants have the right to appeal to the Court of Appeal and then to the Court of Cassation. (references) | |
Minorities | Egypt | By year's end, the Court of Cassation still had not yet set a date to hear an appeal by the Public Prosecutor seeking a heavier sentence in the case of Ahmad and Ibrahim Nasir, who were sentenced to 7 years in prison for the September 1999 murder of a monk in Assiyut. (references) |
Political Economy | Armenia | The Chairman of the Court of Cassation is Henrik DANIELIAN. (references) |
Italy | Decisions of the Assizes Court of Appeals can be appealed to the highest court, the Court of Cassation (Supreme Court) in Rome. (references) | |
Political Rights | Turkey | Shortly after a July announcement that former Istanbul mayor Tayyip Erdogan was forming a new political party, the Court of Cassation Chief Prosecutor applied to the Constitutional Court for a review of Erdogan's eligibility to lead a party. (references) |
Women | Egypt | In 1997 the Court of Cassation upheld the legality of a 1996 decree banning FGM that was issued by the Minister of Health and Population Planning. (references) |
Egypt | At year's end, the Court of Cassation still was examining the cases of two attorneys, Fatma Lashin and Amany Talaat, who are challenging the Government's refusal to appoint them as public prosecutors. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "CASSATION" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CASSATION" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 9 | 117,287 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "CASSATION": court of cassation. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cassation cour de | 27 |
cassation cour | 4 |
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| Language | Translations for "CASSATION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | anulim (abolishment, annulment, avoidance, cancel, cancellation, Defeasance, defeat, invalidation, nullification, recall, repeal, rescission, reversal, revocation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الغاء (abrogation, annulment, cancel, lifting, scratching). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | касация, анулиране (abatement, abrogation, annulment, cancellation, defeat, invalidation, nullification, recision, repeal, rescission, retraction, voidance, write off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 判决'". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Cassatieregeling (statutory provision extending the Supreme Court's competence as court of cassation), cassatiemiddelen (grounds for cassation), middelen van cassatie (grounds for cassation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | cassation. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Kassation (annulment, quashing, reversal, weeding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | ítélet megsemmisítése. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pembatalan hukuman. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | cassazione. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | assationcay cassação (repeal). (various references) casare. (various references) кассация (caution money). (various references) poništenje (abolishment, annulment, avoid, avoidance, cancellation, countermand, defeasance, dissolution, invalidation, nullification, recession, repeal, rescission, vitiation), kasacija (court of appeals). (various references) casamiento (before, marriage, match, wedding, wedlock), casación (matching). (various references) upphävande (abatement, abeyance, abrogation, annulment, cancellation, defeasance, defeat, invalidation, repeal, rescission, resolutory action, reversal, suspension), kassation (reject). (various references) iptal (abatement, abolition, abrogation, annihilation, annulment, avoidance, cancel, cancellation, cancelling, defeasance, defeat, dissolution, invalidation, nullification, nullity, recall, repeal, rescission, reversal, revocation, termination, void, withdrawal), fesih (abolition, annulment, cancel, cancellation, defeasance, denouncement, dissolution, invalidation, repeal, rescission). (various references) касація. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"CASSATION" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: assation, assition, casati, casation, Casscarino, castion, ceasation, corsation, cossachok, kasabian, Kasatanov. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "CASSATION" (pronounced 'Cas*sa"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-n-o-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: sacatons. | |
-2 letters: actions, atonics, caisson, casinos, casitas, cassino, cations, consist, sacaton, satanic, scotias, sonatas, tocsins. | |
-3 letters: actins, action, antics, ascots, atonic, cansos, cantos, casino, casita, cassia, cation, coasts, coatis, cotans, nastic, octans, saints, sancta, santos, satins, scants, scions, scotia, sonata, sonics, stains, stoics, tocsin, tonics. | |
-4 letters: actin, anoas, antas, antic, antis, ascot, assai, cains. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-n-o-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: caseations, causations. | |
+2 letters: accusations, associating, association, castrations, escalations, fasciations, fascinators, isocyanates, nasogastric. | |
+3 letters: abstractions, accompanists, acousticians, associations, astronautics, castigations, ceratopsians, fantasticoes, fascinations, mastications, sacculations, satisfaction, transactions, unassociated, vacationists. | |
+4 letters: anecdotalisms, anecdotalists, antisocialist, antispasmodic, associational, auscultations, basifications, compassionate, contrabassist, cytochalasins, deescalations, disclamations, emasculations, factionalisms, gasifications, gynecomastias, microanalysts, nonassociated, onomasticians, plastocyanins, reescalations, sacrosanctity, satisfactions, scapegoatings, scatterations. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 41 53 53 41 54 49 4F 4E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- ... ... .- - .. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01000001 01010011 01010011 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C A S S A T I O N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0041 0053 0053 0041 0054 0049 004F 004E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)373553533554434948 |
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