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  • favored by most scholars, lawyers, or judges. Noscitur a sociis ("a word is known by its associates") When a word is ambiguous, its meaning may be determined...
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    narrow or enlarge the text ...."), and noscitur a sociis, Virginia v. Tennessee, 148 U.S. 503, 519 (1893) ("It is a familiar rule in the construction of...
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  • (see Noscitur a sociis): The statute excludes only merchandise "of foreign manufacture," which the majority says might mean "manufactured by a foreigner"...
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  • Chapter of Communities for a Greater Oregon. Invoking the noscitur a sociis canon of statutory construction, which holds that a word is known by the company...
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  • including the canons noscitur a sociis ("a word is known by the company it keeps") and ejusdem generis ("general words following a list of specific words...
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  • & Co., 367 U.S. 303 (1961), was a U.S. Supreme Court case.[1] Jarecki is an example of the maxim noscitur a sociisa word is known by the company it keeps...
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  • main list. A B C D E F G H I L M N O P Q R S T U V full References Hall, A. Rupert (1962). Unpublished Scientific Papers of Isaac Newton: A selection from...
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  • A number of Latin terms are used in legal terminology and legal maxims. This is a partial list of these terms, which are wholly or substantially drawn...
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  • themselves translations of Greek phrases. Assertions, such as those by Bryan A. Garner in Garner's Modern English Usage, that "eg" and "ie" style versus...
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  • turning to the canon of noscitur a sociis. Section 100(b) defines process as a "process, art or method, and includes a new use of a known process, machine...
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    South African contract law (category Cleanup tagged articles with a reason field from December 2021)
    same class as the specific words (the eiusdem generis or noscitur a sociis rule) That, if a later provision qualifies an earlier provision, effect is...
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  • This is a partial chronological list of cases decided by the United States Supreme Court during the Warren Court, the tenure of Chief Justice Earl Warren...
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    August 1898. p. 3. Retrieved 23 March 2015. Lowenna, Sharon (2004). ""Noscitur A Sociis": Jenner, Duncombe-Jewell and their Milieu". Cornish Studies: Twelve:...
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    offense would have been cognizable under § 3. Following the canon of noscitur a sociis, Marshall interpreted the jurisdictional phrase "any fort, arsenal...
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