247 So. 2d 821 - Belk v. Bean’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 3 state decisions

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1. ““ * * * Where statutes refer specifically to another statute, it specifically embodies the statute referred to into the adopting statute. The effect of the adopting of an earlier statute is to incorporate the entire section of the earlier statute, the same as if reeopied in the later statute. 50 Am. Jur. Statutes section 38, page 58 (1944). In the instant case the amendment of Chapter 20, section 4, Laws, 1953, by Chapter 300, Laws, 1960, did not amend Chapter 25, section 4, Laws of 1953 because Chapter 25 had adopted the method originally set forth in Chapter 20, section 4, Laws, 1953, and this was not amended; therefore, the Board of Education of Lee County retained the discretion to approve or disapprove the nomination of a superintendent of the Nettleton Line Consolidated School.” 3”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. McKnight v. Dyer · Boatner v. Atlanta Specialty Insurance