SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Gov. Jerry Brown wasted no time Tuesday in signing a contentious California bill to impose one of the strictest school vaccination laws in the country following an outbreak of measles at Disneyland late last year.
rebuttal - the speech act of refuting by offering a contrary contention or argument. refutation, defence, defense - the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions; his refutation of the charges was short and persuasive; in defense he said the other man started it.
(plural acquittals) ( 1 now rare) The act of fulfilling the duties (of a given role, obligation etc.). ( 2 law) A legal decision that someone is not guilty with which they have been charged, or the formal dismissal of a charge by some other legal process. 3  Payment of a debt or other obligation; reparations, amends.