Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Lex posterior derogat priori
A later statute repeals an earlier one.
lex posterior derogat priori
n. [Latin "a later law prevails over an earlier one"] The principle that a later statute negates the effect of a prior one if the later statute expressly repeals, or is obviously repugnant to, the earlier law.