A reluctance to treat statutory terms as surplusage supports the reasonableness of the Secretary's interpretation.
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The court determined that it did : the word " unlawful " was surplusage, as all rape was considered illegal under the Act.
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I, s8 ( including portions of the Commerce Clause itself ) would be surplusage if Congress had been given authority over matters that substantially affect interstate commerce.
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Judges should hesitate . . . to treat ( as surplusage ) statutory terms in any setting, and resistance should be heightened when the words describe an element of a criminal offense.
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I disagree, and would not use it to smooth the flow of a sentence, because that is " surplusage, " to pick up Durbin's legal usage.
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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 ".
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;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.
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Meanwhile, I'll add " Eschew surplusage " to my list of obnoxious but necessary edit summaries .;-) talk ) 03 : 03, 19 September 2012 ( UTC)
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"Without exception it is surplusage and often used to mask deception, as in ` Senator, I'm sorry Mr . Jones cannot come to the phone to discuss your fund-raiser, but actually he is away from his desk on safari .'
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Seaton and Stevens worked with Gen . Walter Reed Army Hospital, where Seaton was being treated for back problems . " It's still in the law but it's never been exercised, " Stevens later recollected . " Now that the problem with Russia is gone, it's surplusage.
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