Sub`ro*ga"tion (?), n. [Cf. F. subrogation, LL. subrogatio.]
The act of subrogating.
Specifically:
Law 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.
Bouvier. Burrill. Abbott.
© Webster 1913.