Construction
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case Seider v. O'CONNELL (2000)
Most recently applied in Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada v. U.S. Bank National Ass'n (October 2016)
1971 c. 260; 1979 c. 89 s. 543; 1979 c. 102, 177; 1983 a. 358 s. 14; 1989 a. 187 s. 29.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(1) Unless otherwise provided, chs. 600 to 655 shall be liberally construed to achieve the purposes stated therein. Unless expressly provided otherwise or clearly appearing from the context the purposes stated shall constitute an aid and guide to interpretation but not an independent source of power.
(2) If a provision of chs. 600 to 655 conflicts with another statutory provision, the provision of chs. 600 to 655 shall prevail.
Official source: Wisconsin State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Wisconsin statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.