Whose laws, like those of the Medes and Persian, they cannot alter or abrogate. - Edmund Burke.
To annul, cancel repeal or destroy, revoke formally.
I consider the sudden and violent abrogation of the office of Master in Chancery, by the new Constitution, as a __ premature act; inasmuch as I had counted on a life-lease of the profits, whereas I only received those of a few short years.''.