Is there any conflict between a general and a special statute?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Anderson v. Sherman, 125 Cal.App.3d 228, 178 Cal.Rptr. 38 (Cal. App. 1981):
Defendants invoke the rule of statutory construction that special statutes prevail over general statutes covering the same subject matter. But the application of the rule is appropriate only where there is "an inherent antagonism" or "a necessary repugnancy between the acts." (Cohn v. Isensee (1920) 45 Cal.App. 531, 536-537, 188 P. 279.) Here there is no such conflict that we can discern.
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