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Administrator of Veterans Affairs v. Valentine, 490 A.2d 1165 (1985)

Citation
Administrator of Veterans Affairs v. Valentine, 490 A.2d 1165 (1985)
Parent Document
Administrator of Veterans Affairs v. Valentine, 490 A.2d 1165 (1985)
Jurisdiction
DC (municipal)
Effective Date
1985-04-24

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We are dealing here with a prior statute of limited application and a later statute of broad general scope. The proviso in section 45-222 deals only with the particular situation of a person in possession of property holding over after a foreclosure and sale, whereas the Rental Housing Act is an attempt by the City Council to cover the waterfront in regulating the rental housing market in the District of Columbia. In such a situation a presumption arises that *1172the legislature knowingly allowed the earlier enactment to stand as an exception to the later one: