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Derogatory clause, a clause in a legal document by which the right of subsequently altering or cancelling it is abrogated, and the validity of a later document, doing this, is made dependent on the correct repetition of the clause and its formal revocation. Obsolete, Oxf. Dict. As to such a clause in a will, see Swinburne, Pt. VII., s. xiv. P. 977; Jarman on Wills, 6th Edn., p. 28.