Incivil law,obrogation (Latin:obrogat[1] fromobrogare[2]) is the modification or repeal of a law in whole or in part by issuing a new law.[3][4][5]
In thecanon law of theCatholic Church, obrogation is the enacting of a contrary law that is a revocation of a previous law;[6] it may also be the partial cancellation or amendment of a law, decree, or legal regulation by the imposition of a newer one.
The1983 Code of Canon Law governs here incanon 53:
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.[7]
This canon incorporates Rule 34 in VI of theRegulae Iuris:"Generi per speciem derogatur" or "The specificderogates from the general."[8]
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