Lewis Short
rēscissĭo (noun F) : [rescindo, II.)
* A making void, annulling, rescinding, rescission (in jurid. and eccl. Lat.).
* Lit.: prioris decreti,Dig. 50, 9, 5: emptionis,ib. 43, 24, 11 fin.: emancipationis,ib. 37, 4, 3.
* Trop.: mortis,Tert. Res. Carn. 57, 5; cf. id. adv. Marc. 2, 7.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary