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Obrogation vs Obrogate - What's the difference?

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Obrogation is a related term of obrogate.


As a verb obrogate is

(legal|rare) to annul a law by enacting a new law, as opposed to repealing the former law.

obrogate

English

Verb

(obrogat)
  • (legal, rare) To annul a law by enacting a new law, as opposed to repealing the former law.
  • * 1880 , Johannes Voet, translated by James Buchanan, Johannes Voet, His Commentary on the Pandects , page 56[http://books.google.com/books?id=irgDAAAAQAAJ]:
  • That a law is surrogated'', when anything is added to the former law; that it is ''obrogated when anything in the former law is changed.