Explanatory Dictionary of the Romanian Language / Law and Jurisprudence Glossaries

• To abrogate — (Jurisprudence) To annul, abolish, or officially repeal a law, decree, ordinance, or another regulatory act through a new legal provision of equal or higher rank.
• Abrogation — The action of abrogating and its result; the official, total or partial annulment of the legal validity of a regulatory act (law, decree, regulation) by a subsequent legal provision.
• Repealed — (Jurisprudence) Of a law, decree, or regulatory act that has been officially deprived of force or validity by a subsequent legal provision.
• To arrogate to oneself — To claim, assume, or attribute to oneself abusively and unjustifiably a right, title, power, merit, or privilege without having the legal or moral authority to do so. Used almost exclusively as a reflexive verb ('a-și aroga').
• Arrogation — The act of arrogating and its result; the abusive and unjustified assumption, attribution, or claiming of a right, title, power, merit, or privilege without legal or moral authority. In constitutional contexts, it denotes the illegal usurpation of prerogatives between institutions.