On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Ed Murphy <emurph...@socal.rr.com> wrote:
> It does, but 2240 only applies to self-contradictory chains of
> precedence/deference clauses within a rule. If a rule simply
> reads "X, but notwithstanding that, Y", then 2240 does not apply,
> and common sense says that Y succeeds in taking precedence over X.
If a rule contains one or more self-contradictory chains of
clauses claiming precedence over and/or deference to one
another, then the last claim (when reading the rule from top to
bottom) involved in one or more such chains has no effect; this
process is repeated as often as needed until all such chains are
broken.
I didn't read it that way at all; rather, if a rule contains multiple
clauses containing precedence claims, and the set of those clauses is
self-contradictory, the rule applies.
