Obsolete

Worn out: old and not enforced.

Obsolescent.

Falling into disuse. " It must be a strong case to justify the court in deciding that an unrepealed act is obsolete and invalid. I will not say that such case may not exist: where there has been a non-user for a great number of years; where, from a change of times and manners, an ancient sleeping statute would do great mischief, if suddenly brought into action; where a long practice, inconsistent with it, has prevailed, and, especially, where from other and later statutes it might fairly be inferred that, in the apprehension of the legislature, the old one was not in force." * See Repeal. OBSTA PBrNCIPHS. L. Adhere to first principles. In this sense constitutional rights are to be liberally construed.^