Obreption
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Acquisition of escheats, etc., from sovereign, by making false representations. Bell, Diet. "Subreption;" Calv. Lex. OBROGARE (Lat. from ob, and rogare, to pass a law). In the civil law. To pass a law contrary to a former law, or to some clause of it; to change a former law in some part of it.
Calv. Lex.; Tayl. Civ. Law, 155.