Chappell v. Bradshaw’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 1 district ·

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1. ““There are no words in it which signify that it was intended to be a repealing statute. .It appears to be another section, intended to take its place at the end of the act of 1851, as that act is given in the Revised Statutes, it is another section extending the exemption of shipowners to all or any debts and liabilities of the ship, except seamen's wages, and liabilities incurred before the passage of the act of 1884. Where a subsequent statute can be so construed as not to bring it in direct conflict with an antecedent law, it will not he held by the courts to repeal the former statute. Repeals by implication are seldom allowed, and to do so in ibis instance would he to do violence to the intention of congress, which appears clearly to have been to extend the act of 1851 to exempt shipowners from liabilities not embraced in that act.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Oregon Ry. & Nav. Co. v. Lawton