Bible Dictionaries
Subrogation

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) 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.

(2):

(n.) The act of subrogating.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Subrogation'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​s/subrogation.html. 1828.