to overrule

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to overrule - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  TO OVERRULE. To annul, to make void. This word is frequently used to signify 
  that a case has been decided directly opposite to a former case; when this 
  takes place, the first decided case is said to be overruled as a precedent, 
  and cannot any longer be considered as of binding authority. 
       2. Mr. Greenleaf has made a very valuable collection of overruled 
  cases, of great service to the practitioner. 
       3. The term overrule also signifies that a majority of the judges have 
  decided against the opinion of the minority, in which case the latter are 
  said to be overruled.