Derogare

Lat. [from de, from, and rogare, to pass a law.] In the civil and old English law. To derogate or diminish; to take from or impair the authority, validity or effect of a law or contract; to repeal some clause of an old law by a new one. Derogatur legi cum pars detrahitur; a law is derogated from, when a part of it is taken away.

Dig. 50. 16. 102.

Hoc multum derogat chartae et ipsius fidei; this derogates or takes greatly from the charter and the credit to be given it. Bract. fol.

398.

See Rogare, Abrogare.