The word 'abrogated' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to describe the act of officially ending or canceling a law, agreement, or practice. For example, "The government decided to abrogate the non-compete agreement that had been in place for years."
They have the talent and the brains and the money to get it done and yet almost every housing association in the country has abrogated its role in changing the housing sector".
But most of the material that individuals saved has been lost or determined, rightly or wrongly, not to be important enough for preservation.The libraries that are presently wringing their hands over collecting everything digital have abrogated this basic responsibility of appraising documents for the future.
But if contracts are abrogated the costs will be high.
America abrogated the "gold clause" (which fixed the payment of interest and principal in terms of the metal) after leaving the gold standard.
For progressives and feminists, the news is evidence that Susan G. Komen's commitment to women's health can be abrogated by political pressure from the pro-life right.
Treaties, after all, are not legal documents but political ones; they register commitments made by governments but threaten no sanctions if those commitments are broken or abrogated, apart from disapproval.
Iran sees what it calls its "right" to enrichment under the terms of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (which it has not abrogated) as non-negotiable.
Since April 2009, when the country's constitution was abrogated, martial law has been a permanent fixture.
Fiji's president abrogated the constitution and reappointed Mr Bainimarama as prime minister.
A few days earlier, the government abrogated a 2002 ceasefire agreement with the Tigers.There was alarm at shortages of affordable rice and wheat in Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
It can't surely be concern with respect for individual rights since, when it comes to terrorism (which has killed fewer people overall in 20 years than guns have killed in a single year), all sorts of rights have been abrogated; detention without trial, questioning without reference to an attorney, torture, strip searches at airports etc.The IEP report has a useful comparison.
