Law) The act of separating, or setting aside, a thing in controversy from the possession of both the parties that contend for it, to be delivered to the one adjudged entitled to it.
Defn: The act of superseding, or setting aside; supersession; as, the supersedure of trial by jury.
Rejection; a setting aside as trivial, invalid, or unworthy of consideration.
The act of setting aside a sovereign or a public officer; deprivation of authority and dignity; displacement; removal.
The act of renouncing, or setting aside, one's own wishes, claims, etc.
The idea of a supreme authority exercising the function of setting aside acts of legislative bodies which it deemed inconsistent with a higher law was familiar to Americans from an early period of our colonial history.
During this period, the General Assembly of Connecticut repeatedly exercised the power of setting aside judgments of courts, and its right to do so was sustained by the Supreme Court of the United States.
Setting aside all other considerations, I will endeavor to know the truth, and yield to that.
Setting aside 5 patients who died during the course of the treatment, and 5 others who died less than fifteen days after the end of the treatment, we have had to deplore only 9 failures = 0.
Setting aside my love for Lionel, which was great, setting aside my finding him unworthy, it has been a bitter trial to me to leave Verner's Pride to a Massingbird.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "setting aside" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
