Definition of Surplusage. Meaning of Surplusage. Synonyms of Surplusage

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Definition of Surplusage

Surplusage
Surplusage Sur"plus*age, n. [See Surplus, and cf. Superplusage.] 1. Surplus; excess; overplus; as, surplusage of grain or goods beyond what is wanted. Take what thou please of all this surplusage. --Spenser. A surplusage given to one part is paid out of a reduction from another part of the same creature. --Emerson. 2. (Law) Matter in pleading which is not necessary or relevant to the case, and which may be rejected. 3. (Accounts) A greater disbursement than the charge of the accountant amounts to. [Obs.] --Rees.

Meaning of Surplusage from wikipedia

- Look up surplusage in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In jurisprudence, surplusage is language within a do****ent that has no legal relevance to a cause...
- Literary Offenses, where he lists rule fourteen of good writing as "eschew surplusage". Obfuscation of oral or written communication achieves a degree of secure...
- because Article I, Section 3, Clause 7 would violate the legal principle of surplusage if the president were also a civil officer. There exists no case law to...
- marital rape. The court determined that it did: the word "unlawful" was surplusage, as all rape was considered unlawful under the Act. With regard to the...
- 332, 335, 149 S.E. 541, 542 (1929). This is known as the rule against surplusage. Supreme Court of Alaska: "In ****essing statutory language, unless words...
- Stevens later recollected. "Now that the problem with Russia is gone, it's surplusage. But it is a special law that only applies to Alaska." Stevens, illegally...
- Back to the Pleistocene Dream back the bison, sing back the swan Eschew surplusage Hunt cows, not bears Hunters: did a cow get your elk? Malthus was right...
- petitioner. Whether the Ninth Circuit opinion, which renders §157(b)(2)(C) surplusage[clarification needed] in light of §157(b)(2)(B), contravenes Congress's...
- Huntingdon who wrote the statutes in 1575. The head was paid from a "surplusage" out of the land rents. Trustees v. Rev. Lloyd was a famous case in chancery...
- 8 He that taketh more wages than is accustomably given, shall pay the surplusage to the town where he dwelleth, towards a payment to the King of a tenth...