7a. When the form is not observed, it is inferred that the act is annulled. 12 Coke, 7.7b. It matters not whether a revocation be by words or by acts. Cro. Car. 49; Branch, Princ.7e. Laws are abrogated or repealed by the same authority by which they are made. Broom, Max. 3d Lond. ed. 785.7h. To derogate from a law is to take away part of it; to abrogate a law is to abolish it entirely. Dig. 50, 17, 102; 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 91.7i. All shall have liberty to renounce those things which have been established in their favor. Code. 2, 3, 29; Broom, Max. 625.
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