Repeal
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
V. To abrogate or revoke an enactment by the direction or effect of another. Repeal, n.: an abrogation or revocation of one enactment by another. Express repeal takes place where the later statute directs that the former shall be repealed. Implied repeal arises when the two statutes are so inconsistent that both cannot reasonably stand; in such case, the later one, being the Kepellitur a sacramento infamis. An infamous person is repelled from an oath. An infamous person is not allowed to be sworn as a witness. A leading maxim in the law of evidence, abrogated in England by Lord Denman's act (6 & 7 Vict. ch. 85). The stringency of the rule has also been much relaxed in the United States.