Missouri v. Ross

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• stating that the more specific provisions of one statute should take precedence over other provisions
• Where a statute is construed by the courts in a particular way and the statute is thereafter amended in other respects, that circumstance “is persuasive evidence of the adoption by that [legislative] body of the judicial construction”

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