A law, absolutely repugnant to another, as entirely repeals that other as if express terms of repeal were used.
When Congress repeals a National bankrupt law it merely "removes a disability" of the State created by the enactment of the National statute, and lasting only so long as that statute is in force.
This bill saying nothing of the prisoner releasing himself by breach of jail, he will have the benefit of the first section of the bill, which repeals the judgment of life and death at the Common law.
These acts are occasionalrepeals of that part of the constitution, which forbids the same persons to exercise legislative and judiciary powers, at the same time.
He simply repeals them, with a clause protecting all vested rights.
The twenty-fifth section of this actrepeals all acts, or parts of acts, inconsistent therewith.
The first section repeals the thirteenth section of the act of 1798, which prescribes that lands on which taxes remain unpaid for one year, shall be sold subject to the right of redemption within two years after sale.
Act of 1807 repeals all laws laying a duty on imported salt, and for paying bounties on the exportation of pickled fish and salted provisions, and making allowances to fishing vessels--Mr. Jefferson being then President.
She repeals but a single law, repeals it by the action of a sovereign convention, leaves her constitution, her laws, her political and social polity untouched.
Virginia repeals that ordinance, annuls that bond of union, breaks that link of confederation.
As to the difficulty of repealsit was probable that in doubtful cases the policy would soon take place of limiting the duration of laws so as to require renewal instead of repeal.
The requiring 3/4 to repeal would, though not a compleat remedy, prevent the hasty passage of laws, and the frequency of those repeals which destroy faith in the public, and which are among our greatest calamities.
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