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Repeal vs Obrogate - What's the difference?

repeal | obrogate |

As verbs the difference between repeal and obrogate

is that repeal is to cancel, invalidate, annul while obrogate is (legal|rare) to annul a law by enacting a new law, as opposed to repealing the former law.

As a noun repeal

is an act or instance of repealing.

repeal

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To cancel, invalidate, annul.
    • to repeal a law
  • To recall; to summon (a person) again.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The banished Bolingbroke repeals himself, / And with uplifted arms is safe arrived.
  • To suppress; to repel.
  • * Milton
    • Whence Adam soon repealed / The doubts that in his heart arose.

    Synonyms

    * annul, cancel, invalidate, revoke, veto

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act or instance of repealing.

    • Anagrams

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    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.

    Related terms

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