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2014 Kansas Statutes
Chapter 77 STATUTES; ADMINISTRATIVE RULES AND REGULATIONS AND PROCEDURE
Article 1 STATUTES
77-109 Common law.

KS Stat § 77-109 (2014) What's This?

77-109. Common law. The common law as modified by constitutional and statutory law, judicial decisions, and the conditions and wants of the people, shall remain in force in aid of the General Statutes of this state; but the rule of the common law, that statutes in derogation thereof shall be strictly construed, shall not be applicable to any general statute of this state, but all such statutes shall be liberally construed to promote their object.

History: L. 1923, ch. 144, § 5; March 9; R.S. 1923, 77-109.

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