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Abrogation

A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

The annulment of a law by constitutional authority. It stands opposed te vogation; and is distinguished from derogation, which implies the taking away only some part of a law; from subrogation, which denotes the adding a clause to it; from dispensation, which only sets it aside In a particular instance; and from a@ntiguation, which is the refusing to passa law. Eneye. Lond.