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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 35361, member: 669&quot;]I don&#039;t know about New Zealand, but in the rest of the common-law world (the countries whose legal systems derive from England) when there is a conflict between the provisions of two statutes, the specific controls over the general; and at the same level the newer controls over the older.&nbsp; By both measures a statute authorizing a presidential (and/or first lady) coin series would control over the existing statute governing living persons - and of course such a new law would probably expressly provide for either the repeal of, or an exception to, the existing one.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, I&#039;m rashly assuming that my 40+ years of practicing law in the U.S., and my six years of teaching law school civil procedure classes, qualify me to express an opinion on this subject. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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