Shaw Acquisition Co. v. Bank of Elk River

How courts have described this case

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• stating the general rule that the Legislature only abrogates the common law by express wording or necessary implication
• stating the general rule that the Legislature only abrogates the common law by express wording or necessary implication
• declining to hold that a statute abrogated a common-law rule where the statute , did not “specifically address” the subject or “contain a clear mandate” inconsistent with the common-law rule
• explaining in a mortgage-foreclosure case that courts must presume that a statute is consistent with the common law, and that, if a statute abrogates the common law, it must do so by express wording or necessary implication
• explaining in a mortgage-foreclosure case that courts must presume that a statute is consistent with the common law, and that, if a statute abrogates the common law, it must do so by express wording or necessary implication

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).