Literary notes about repeal (AI summary)
The term "repeal" appears in literature not merely as a legal term but as a dynamic symbol of change, debate, and sometimes contradiction across various texts. In some instances, authors use it to note the concrete cancellation of laws or ordinances, as seen in the historical discussions of statutes and tax laws ([1], [2], [3]), while in others it underscores broader political and social struggles surrounding rights and privileges ([4], [5], [6]). Its use is not confined to serious legal discourse; writers such as Milton even employ a poetic twist in its form ([7]). Additionally, the term is featured in both reflective critiques on legislation ([8], [9]) and in celebratory or cautionary contexts, describing how the repeal of a law can either protect or undermine societal progress ([10], [11]). Thus, "repeal" serves as a multifaceted narrative device, rich with historical, political, and literary implications.
- About 200 new almanacs were started immediately on the repeal.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide by Various - Private houses were relieved from the jurisdiction of the excise, by the repeal of the cider tax .
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke - Repeal of Corn Laws 1847-1859.
— from English Literature by William J. Long - In but one thing did it repeal, in the sense of taking away any right or power or privilege or freedom that the Act of 1860 gave.
— from History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I - We shall go to your meetings, and by and by we shall meet with the same success that the Roman women did, who claimed the repeal of the Appian law.
— from History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I - We ask for such change in public sentiment as shall procure the repeal of this oppressive law.
— from History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I - Whence Adam soon repeal’d
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton - I do not know who was the author of the repeal bill, nor did I know of its existence until I saw it in the statute-book.
— from History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I - The author may rail at the repeal, and those who proposed it, as he pleases.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke - And marred, indeed, would be your triumph, if, in preventing the repeal of one unjust statute, you sanction the enactment of another.
— from History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I - He urged that the defeat of Madison would speedily lead to a peace, for which the door stood open in the repeal of the Orders in Council.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson
