subrogation
(sʌbrəˈgeɪʃən)
[ad. L. subrogātio, -ōnem, n. of action f. subrogāre to subrogate. Cf. F. subrogation, Sp. subrogacion, Pg. subroga{cced}ão and see surrogation.]
† 1. Substitution. Obs.
| 1418–20 Lydg. Chron. Troy iv. 334 [He] seide it was noon eleccioun, But a maner subrogacioun, Be-cause hym silfe in þe parlement At þe chesyng was nat þere present. 1611 Cotgr., Subrogation, a subrogation, substitution, deputation. 1648 Owen Death of Death iii. x. 164 In the undergoing of death there was a subrogation of his person in the room and stead of ours. 1681 Baxter Answ. Dodwell 119 To alter Gods Universal Laws by abrogation, subrogation, suspension, or dispensation. |
2. Law. The substitution of one party for another as a creditor; the process by which a person who pays a debt for which another is liable succeeds to the rights of the creditor to whom he pays it; the right of such succession.
| 1710 J. Harris Lex. Techn. II, Subrogation in the Civil Law, is putting another Person into the Place and Right of him, that in any case, is the proper Creditor. 1818 Colebrooke Obligations 120 A surety, paying a debt without requiring subrogation or cession of the creditor's rights, has thereby extinguished the debt. 1866 Maclachlan Arnould's Marine Insur. iii. vi. II. 875 The bottomry lender, who had become his creditor by the effect of this entire subrogation. 1910 Encycl. Brit. (ed. 11) XIV. 679/2 The payment of a partial loss gives the underwriter a similar subrogation but only in so far as the insured has been indemnified in accordance with law by such payment for the loss. |