Q&A: HOW CAN WE REPEAL ARCHAIC LAW? —“Are there provisions for repealing archa

Q&A: HOW CAN WE REPEAL ARCHAIC LAW?

—“Are there provisions for repealing archaic law?”—

Since independent, organically evolved common law is not legislated, it need not be repealed. It need only be falsified by new law – just as all sciences falsify old theories with newer better theories.

In general both law and theory add precision, rather than falsify.

One of the values of strictly constructed law is that (a) it is very hard to create an erroneous law, and (b) it is easy to restructure(refactor) it (just as we restructure a program in software).