obrogation
{{Short description|Law to represent the old one}}
{{Distinguish|Abrogation (disambiguation){{!}}Abrogation}}In civil law, obrogation (Latin: {{Lang|la|obrogat}}Caparros et al., 1983 Code of Canon Law Annotated, canon 53 (pg. 66) from {{Lang|la|obrogare}}{{sfn|Black|Nolan|Connolly|1979|page=971}}) is the modification or repeal of a law in whole or in part by issuing a new law.{{cite book|url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/obrogate|title=Obrogate|work=Merriam-Webster Dictionary|publisher=Merriam-Webster.com.|access-date=March 24, 2016}}{{subscription required}}{{cite book|last1=Garner|first1=Bryan A.|url=https://archive.org/details/blackslawdiction00blac_1|title=obrogate|work=Black's Law Dictionary|publisher=West Publishing|year=1999|isbn=0-314-22864-0|edition=7th|location=St. Paul, Minnesota|page=[https://archive.org/details/blackslawdiction00blac_1/page/1104 1104]|author-link1=Bryan A. Garner|url-access=registration}}{{Cite web|title=Obrogation definition and meaning {{!}} Collins English Dictionary|url=https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/obrogation|access-date=2021-01-16|website=www.collinsdictionary.com|language=en}}
In the canon law of the Catholic Church, obrogation is the enacting of a contrary law that is a revocation of a previous law;Della Rocca, Manual, 69. it may also be the partial cancellation or amendment of a law, decree, or legal regulation by the imposition of a newer one.
Catholic Church
{{canon law}}The 1983 Code of Canon Law governs here in canon 53:
{{quote|If decrees are contrary one to another, where specific matters are expressed, the specific prevails over the general; if both are equally specific or equally general, the one later in time obrogates the earlier insofar as it is contrary to it.1983 Code of Canon Law, [http://www.intratext.com/IXT/ENG0017/_P6.HTM Canon 53], accessed 24 March 2016|author=|title=|source=}}
This canon incorporates Rule 34 in VI of the Regulae Iuris: "Generi per speciem derogatur" or "The specific derogates from the general."Coriden et al., Commentary, pg. 54 (commentary on canon 53).
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=Bibliography=
- {{cite book |first1=Ernest |last1=Caparros |orig-year=1983 |title=Code of Canon Law Annotated: Prepared Under the Responsibility of the Instituto Martin De Azpilcueta |type=Hardcover |date=January 1, 2004 |first2=Michel |last2=Theriault |first3=Jean |last3=Thorn |first4=Helene |last4=Aube |isbn=189017744X |work=Gratianus Series |edition=2nd |location=Montréal, Woodridge, Illinois |publisher=Midwest Theological Forum}}
- Coriden, James A., Thomas J. Green, Donald E. Heintschel (editors). The Code of Canon Law: A Text and Commentary (New York: Paulist Press, 1985). Commissioned by the Canon Law Society of America.
- Della Rocca, Fernando. Manual of Canon Law (Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Company, 1959) translated by Rev. Anselm Thatcher, O.S.B.
- {{cite book |first1=Henry Campbell |last1=Black |author-link1=Henry Campbell Black |first2=Joseph R. |last2=Nolan |author-link2=Joseph R. Nolan |first3=M.J. |last3=Connolly |title=Obrogare |work=Black's Law Dictionary |edition=5th |location=St. Paul Minnesota |publisher=West Publishing Co. |year=1979 |isbn=0-8299-2041-2}}
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