AMENDMENT BY IMPLICATION

amendment by implication. A rule of construction that allows a person to interpret a repugnant provision in a statute as an implicit modification or abrogation of a provision that appears before it. • Amendments by implication are not favored. See United States v. Welden, 377 U.S. 95, 102 n.12, 84 S.Ct. 1082, 1087 n.12 (1964).