all errors not so distinctly specified, shall be considered by the Supreme Court as waived.” Act approved Feb. 11, 1850, 3rd Leg., R.S., ch. 139, § 9, 1850 Tex. Gen. Laws 171, 173-74, reprinted in 3 Gammel, Laws of Texas 1847-1854, at 609, 611-12 (1898). Both statutes were made applicable to the courts of civil appeals when those courts were organized. See Act approved Apr. 13,1892, 22nd Leg., 1st C.S., ch. 15, §§ 24, 25, 1892 Tex. Gen. Laws 25, 29, reprinted in 10 Gammel, Laws of Texas 1891-1897, at 389, 393 (1898). Although by its terms, the 1850 statute appeared to repeal the 1846 statute, our courts continued to consider fundamental error without acknowledging any effect of the 1850 statute. See Ramsey, 205 S.W.2d at 982. But see Oar v. Davis, 105 Tex. 479, 151 S.W. 794, 796 (1912) (<HOLDING>). In one of the first cases to construe the
holding that similar statutes should be harmonized and construed together when possible in a way that facilitates their operation and the achievement of their goals internal citation omitted holding that rule of construction that specific statutory provisions control general ones should not be applied where provisions can be harmonized holding that the statutes abrogated the common law holding that the statutes could be harmonized holding such statutes are not analogous statutes of limitation for erisa purposes