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Wiktionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: rescind (Verb). To repeal, annul, or declare void; to take (something such as a rule or contract) out of effect. The agency will rescind the policy because many people are dissatisfied with it. Origin: From the rescindo, from re- + scindo.
Public Policy Definition: Certain acts or contracts are said to be against public policy if they tend to promote breach of the law, of the policy behind a law or tend to harm the state or its citizens. A condition is against public policy if it is in the interest of the state that it should not be performed. What is contrary to public policy has varied from time to time, and many conditions now upheld which in former days would have been declared to be contrary to the (public) policy of the law.