Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Cassation \Cas*sa"tion\, n. [F. cassation. See {Cass}.]
   The act of annulling.

         A general cassation of their constitutions. --Motley.

   {Court of cassation}, the highest court of appeal in France,
      which has power to quash (Casser) or reverse the decisions
      of the inferior courts.