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Subrogation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In the civil law, the substituting of one person in the place of another and giving him his rights.

Subrogation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of subrogating.

2. 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.