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A Legal Maxim is an established principle or proposition. They are described as of the same strength and effect in the law as statutes. Not only, will the use of maxims be in deciding doubt and helping soundness of judgment, but, further, in gracing argument, in correcting unprofitable subtlety, and reducing the same to a … Read more

Meaning A word is known by the company it keeps. Explanation When a word is ambiguous, its meaning may be determined by reference to the rest of the statute. One of the rules of language used by the courts to help interpret legislation. Under the doctrine of “noscitur a sociis” the questionable meaning of a … Read more