Surplusage
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In jurisprudence, surplusage is language within a document that has no legal relevance to a cause, and may thus be ignored.[1]
Another use of the term is in statutory interpretation. 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.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ "surplusage". Wex. Cornell Law School. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
- ^ Golden, John M. (2015). "Redundancy: When Law Repeats Itself". Texas Law Review. 94: 629.