Rescind Law and Legal Definition
Rescind literally means to invalidate by subsequent action or by a higher authority. It means to invalidate or nullify a contract or a written direction that is delivered by a judiciary. The term rescind is often used with contracts. To rescind a contract means to put the parties to a contact back to the position they were prior to the contract. It means to put an end to a contract as if the contact was never entered into.
