5 Sentences With "surplusage"

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"To my mind [the words in the exception clause] are entirely surplusage," Massachusetts Sen. from Vox
And finally, the broad interpretation offered by the lawsuit violates a basic canon of legal interpretation — the rule against surplusage, or the rule against interpreting a clause in a way that would render some words irrelevant. from The Hill
An earlier similar phrase appears in Mark Twain's Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses, where he lists rule fourteen of good writing as "eschew surplusage".
The King's Bench held that this was "surplusage" and not material to the validity of the case, so the conviction was upheld. Picton's race was not mentioned in either the judgement or the report of the appeal that appeared in The Morning Post.Chater, Kathleen. Cesar Picton’s Conviction for Poaching.
310 U.S. at 228. It was not error for the district court to refuse to charge the jury, as the defendants had requested, that in order to convict the jury must find that the resultant prices were raised and maintained at "high, arbitrary and non-competitive levels." The indictment so charged, but the law does not require that, and the language to that effect in the indictment was surplusage.310 U.S. at 222.