obrogation

[ ob-ruh-gey-shuhn ]

nounCivil Law.
  1. the annulment or alteration of a law by the enactment of a new one.

Origin of obrogation

1
1650–60; <Latin obrogātiōn- (stem of obrogātiō), equivalent to ob-ob- + rogātiōn-rogation

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