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The "rule against surplusage": Where one reading of a statute would make one or more parts of the statute redundant and another reading would avoid the redundan
by eirikbakke 11mo ago
The "rule against surplusage": Where one reading of a statute would make one or more parts of the statute redundant and another reading would avoid the redundancy, the other reading is preferred.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statutory_interpretation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statutory_interpretation
- dragonwriter 11mo agoGrant agreements are not statutes but contracts, and canons of statutory interpretation do not apply to contracts.
- eirikbakke 11mo agoPerhaps a better source (but IANAL): "Judges frequently invoke anti-redundancy principles in the interpretation of legal language, whether it appears in classic private-law documents such as contracts or classic public law-documents such as constitutions and statutes." Redundancy: When Law Repeats Itself, John M. Golden (2016)