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Derogation

The act of derogating partly repealing or lessening in value disparagement detraction depreciation followed

derogation [Latin derogatio partial abrogation of a law, from derogare to

Generalia Specialibus non derogant [Lat.], General things do not derogate from special, Patna Improvement Trust v. Lakshmi Devi, AIR 1963

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: a use that is transferred or takes effect in derogation of some estate upon the happening of a future event

non derogat [Lat.], the agreement of private persons does not derogate from the public right.

To annul in part to repeal partly to restrict to limit the action of said of a law

Specilia generalibus derogant (L.R.I. C.P. 546), special words derogate from general ones.

derogat communi legi. Jenk. Cent. 24.-(An affirmative statute does not derogate from the Common Law.) See ACT OF PARLIAMENT.

juri publico derogare nonpossunt. 7 Co. 23, (Private compacts cannot derogate from public right.)

Generalibus specialia derogant. Lofft, 351; Halkerston, 51.-(Special things derogate from general.)

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