revising statute
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 78 U.S. 493 - Stewart v. Kahn · 1870Most cited · 218 citing opinions
rule of omission
where a revising statute, or one enacted for another, omits provisions contained in the original act, the parts omitted cannot be kept in force by construction, but are annulled.
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “revising statute” — 212 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.