Obrogation

In civil law, obrogation is the modification or repeal of a law, in whole or in part, by issuing a new law. The word comes from the Latin obrogat, from obrogare. In the canon law of the Catholic Church, obrogation is the enacting of a contrary law that revokes a previous law. It may also mean the partial cancellation or amendment of a law, decree or legal regulation by the imposition of a newer one. The concept thus describes a law being displaced by a later law that contradicts or changes it, in both civil law and Catholic canon law.