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Derogation

Derogation, the act of weakening or retraining a former law or

Generalia Specialibus non derogant [Lat.], General things do not derogate from special, Patna Improvement

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

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

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

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

Derogatory

Tending to derogate or lessen in value expressing a low opinion expressing derogation

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

of marriage, so long as those provisions could not be derogated from, CVC (Ancillary) Relief Nuptial Settlement, (2004) 2 WLR 146