Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 991 - Acts and statutes — effective date, numbering, citation and repeal.
991.08 - Statutes reenacted, how regarded.

991.08 Statutes reenacted, how regarded. The provisions of these revised statutes, so far as they are the same in substance as those of existing laws, shall be construed as a continuation of such laws and not as new enactments, and references in laws not repealed to provisions of laws incorporated into these revised statutes and repealed shall be construed as applying to the same provisions so incorporated.