III.   Instruction

To Subrogate is to substitute one (1) thing for another, or of one person into the place of another by rogation with respect to rights, claims or securities in accordance with sovereign authority.

The word Subrogate comes from the Latin word subrogare meaning “to choose, elect or cause someone to be chosen in place of another” from sub meaning “under; behind; at the foot of; close to” and rogatio meaning “a solemn prayer and spiritual entreaty concerning an official question, inquiry, proposal, nomination or motion of law expressed through speech”.

Subrogation is of two (2) kinds, either conventional or legal:

(i) Conventional is where the subrogation is express by the acts of the creditor and the third person; and

(ii) Legal is where (as in the case of sureties) the subrogation is effected or implied by the operation of the law.

No valid Subrogation may be used unless defined by these Canons of Astrum Iuris Divini Canonum or Articles of Pactum De Singularis Caelum or its associated charters and covenants or codes of law.