Implied Abrogation
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
A statute is said to work an “implied abrogation” of an eariier one, when the later statute contains provisions which are inconsistent with the further continuance of the earlier law; or a Slatute is impliedly abrogated when thea reason of it, or thea object for which it was passed, no longer exists.