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Synonyms for divest

to take or keep something away from

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Synonyms for divest

deprive of status or authority

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reduce or dispose of

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The final conclusion of the court is that one common owner of the gas in the common reservoir cannot devest all the others of their rights, without wrongdoing.
Recognizing the shared ownership of subsurface resource pools
a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a [legislative] repeal of the law cannot devest those rights."(73) Under Marshall and Justice Story, moreover, the Supreme Court would eventually enhance national power.(74)
Dualist constitutional theory and the Republican revolution of 1800
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