subrogation
noun
Forms subrogations
- noun (law) Substitution of a different person in place of a creditor or claimant with respect to certain rights and duties. “Subrogation is a staple element of the casualty insurance business.”
Etymology
From Late Latin subrogātiō, from sub- + rogātiō (“inquiry, request”); equivalent to sub- + rogation.
Webster’s 1913
- noun The act of subrogating. Specifically: (Law)
- noun The substitution of one person in the place of another as a creditor, the new creditor succeeding to the rights of the former; the mode by which a third person who pays a creditor succeeds to his rights against the debtor. Bouvier. Burrill. Abbott.
Etymology [Cf. F. subrogation, LL. subrogatio.]
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