The liquidator has powers to disclaim any onerous property or unprofitable contracts. Decolonization allowed the colonizer to disclaim responsibility for the colonized. The British Foreign Secretary attempted to disclaim any existence of oil in the Mosul area. Accordingly, to disclaim Medicare, one must first disclaim Social Security and repay all payments. The next day, he wrote to the newspaper to disclaim authorship and a correction appeared. A peer may also "disclaim" a hereditary peerage under the Peerage Act 1963. Yet some heretics disclaim the truth of the presence of Christ in the Eucharist. He later went on to disclaim the essay as a 'wretched rant'.