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pty; to cease from filling or occupying; as, it was resolved by Parliament that James had vacated the throne of England; the tenant vacated the house.

To empty. [Obs.] Harvey.

To make void; to annul or vacate; to refute. How can these grants of the king's be avoided Spenser.

Capable of being vacated; liable to be annulled or made invalid; voidable. The charters were not avoidable for the king's nonage. Hale.

To render void or useless; to vacate or annul. [Obs.]

ament cannot resign, when they wish to go out they accept this stewardship, which legally vacates their seats.

To make void; to nullify; to vacate; as, to evacuate a contract or marriage. [Obs.] Bacon.

Vacated or relinquished space; room; stead (the departure or removal of another being or thing being implied). "In place of Lord Bassanio." Shak.

Specifically, to vacate or make void, as an act, by the enacting authority or by superior authority; to repeal; as, to rescind a law, a resolution, or a vote; to rescind a decree or a judgment.

; post; station; also, a place or station once belonging to, or occupied by, another, and vacated. [Obs.] When he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea in the room of his father Herod. Matt. ii. 22. Neither that I look for a higher room in heaven. Tyndale. Let Bianca take her sister's room. Shak.

e case of scire facias to repeal letters patent) why the record should not be annulled or vacated. Wharton. Bouvier.

To take away; to vacate; to annul.

To render void; to make to be of no validity or effect; to vacate; to annul; to nullify. After they had voided the obligation of the oath he had taken. Bp. Burnet. It was become a practice . . . to void the security that was at any time given for money so borrowed. Clarendon.

p, and compelled those whom they would drown to walk off into the water; figuratively, to vacate an office by compulsion. Bartlett.