revogado

Revogado is a Portuguese adjective meaning that something has been revoked, rescinded, or annulled by an authority. It is commonly used in legal, administrative, and regulatory contexts to indicate that a rule, decision, license, decree, or other normative act has been formally repealed or annulled. A revoked act is no longer in effect, even if its text remains in records.

The term comes from the verb revogar, itself from Latin revocare, meaning “to call back” or “to recall.” The form agrees with gender and number, for example, ato revogado (revoked act) or lei revogada (repealed law). In practice, the processes related to revocation are described as revogação or derrogação, depending on jurisdiction; revogação usually refers to the act of revoking a normative act, while derrogação can denote partial repeal or derogation of a rule.

Common contexts include: laws and decrees that have been repealed by a later normative act; licenses or permissions that have been withdrawn; administrative decisions that have been annulled on appeal; contracts that have been cancelled under legal grounds. In information security, “certificado revogado” or “revogação de certificado” signifies a digital certificate that has been invalidated before its expiration.

Because revocation changes legal effects, documents often indicate the revoked status together with the date of revocation and the authority responsible. The term is widely used in Portuguese-speaking jurisdictions such as Portugal and Brazil, with some regional variations in procedural terminology.