Commonwealth v. Superintendent of House of Correction

Citations

• 64 Pa. Super. 613
• 1916 Pa. Super. LEXIS 347

Syllabus

<p>Criminal law—Street walking•—Jurisdiction of courts—Municipal Court—Act of June 17, 1915, P. L. 1017—Statutes—Repeal— Words and phrases—“Exclusive</p> <p>Under the Act of June 17, 1915, P. L. 1017, the Municipal Court of Philadelphia County has exclusive jurisdiction in all proceedings concerning, or trials of charges brought against all persons, -whether adults or minors, accused of disorderly street walking. The Act of June 17, 1915, repeals the Act of June 2, 1871, P. L. 1801, in So far as the latter act gives jurisdiction in such case to magistrates or justices of the peace in the City of Philadelphia.</p> <p>A subsequent statute revising the whole subject-matter of a former statute, and evidently intended as a substitute for it, although it contains no express words to that effect, operates to repeal the former.</p> <p>The word “exclusive” in its usual and generally accepted sense, means,—possessed to the exclusion of others; appertaining to the subject alone, individual, sole; to confer exclusive jurisdiction on one court deprives all other courts of such jurisdiction, whether therefore exclusive or concurrent, conferred by statute.</p>