One Who Repeals

One who repeals crossword clue. Daily crossword question that found in Courier-Mail on Aug 10, 2017. 5 letters

The answer: ABROGATOR

ABROGATOR meaning is an authority or official empowered to abolish or annul or repeal

Agent noun of abrogate; one who repeals or abrogates.

In each there was a governor, with minor executive officers, a legislature, and a judiciary; and although the Crown retained the power of altering the charter, and the British parliament could (in strict legal view) legislate over the head of the colonial legislature so as to abrogate statutes passed by the latter, still in practice each colony was allowed to manage its own affairs and to enact the laws it desired. One who repeals