Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Cassation

Cassation , noun

[French cassation. See Cass.]

The act of annulling.
A general cassation of their constitutions. — Motley
Collocations (1)
Court of cassation , the highest court of appeal in France, which has power to quash (Casser) or reverse the decisions of the inferior courts.