Commonwealth v. BUZAK

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating the general principle that where words of later statute differ from those of previous one on same subject, they presumably are intended to have a different construction
• “It is the policy of the law not to permit prosecutions under the general provisions of a penal code when there are special penal provisions available.”
• “It is a canon of statutory construction that where words of a later statute differ from those of a previous one on the same subject, they presumably are intended to have a different construction.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).