Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of creeping on with secrecy or by surprise.
- noun In Scots law, the obtaining of gifts of escheat, etc., by falsehood: opposed to subreption, in which such gifts are procured by concealing the truth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The act of creeping upon with secrecy or by surprise.
- noun (Scots Law) The obtaining gifts of escheat by fraud or surprise.
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- noun obsolete The act of
creeping upon withsecrecy or bysurprise . - noun obsolete, Scotland, law Act of obtaining
gifts ofescheat byfraud or surprise.
Etymologies
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Examples
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In its effects subreption is equivalent to obreption (q.v.), which consists in a positive allegation of what is false.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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Moreover, these dispensations are supposed to be given motu proprio and with certain knowledge, from which it follows that they are not vitiated by obreption or by subreption.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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When a supplica is affected (in a material point) by obreption or subreption it becomes necessary to ask for a so-called
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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For this, and in general for the information which should accompany the petition, in order that a dispensation be valid, see below apropos of obreption and subreption in rescripts of dispensation.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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Rescripts obtained by obreption or subreption are null and void when the motive cause of the rescript is affected by them.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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When the petition contains a statement about facts or circumstances that are supposititious or at least, modified if they really exist, the resulting rescript is said to be vitiated by obreption.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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+ (a) when the dispensation is composed of several distinct and separable parts, that part or element alone is nullified on which falls the obreption or subreption, as the case may be;
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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+ (b) when several adequately distinguished motive causes are set forth, the dispensation is null and void only when the obreption or subreption in question affects them all.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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From the respective nature of each of these forms of dispensation result certain important consequences that affect delegation, obreption, and revocation in the matter of dispensations (see DELEGATION; OBREPTION;
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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