Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
(law) the act of rescinding;
the cancellation of a contract and the return of the parties to the positions they would have had if the contract had not been made;
- Example: "recission may be brought about by decree or by mutual consent"[syn: recission, rescission]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
recission
n 1: (law) the act of rescinding; the cancellation of a contract
and the return of the parties to the positions they would
have had if the contract had not been made; "recission may
be brought about by decree or by mutual consent" [syn:
recission, rescission]