Virginia sure made this easy!

<FONT face=Arial><FONT size=4>Perhaps this will add some clarification</FONT></FONT>


<FONT face=Arial><FONT size=4>ejusdem generis
</FONT>(eh-youse-dem generous) v adj. Latin for "of the same kind," used to interpret loosely written statutes. Where a law lists specific classes of persons or things and then refers to them in general, the general statements only apply to the same kind of persons or things specifically listed. Example: if a law refers to automobiles, trucks, tractors, motorcycles and other motor-powered vehicles, "vehicles" would not include airplanes, since the list was of land-based transportation. </FONT>

Hey, James....


Told you I was tired when I was doing all this. Completely overlooked the used of "term."


"Tax-people"? Does sound like the stuff of those ol' b-grade horror flicks: "Attack of the tax-people." Like those "body snatchers," almost human, but not quite.


Randy

[goldphoenix]

Originally Posted by LT2DOGS

<FONT face=Arial><FONT size=4>Perhaps this will add some clarification</FONT></FONT>


<FONT face=Arial><FONT size=4>ejusdem generis
</FONT>(eh-youse-dem generous) v adj. Latin for "of the same kind," used to interpret loosely written statutes. Where a law lists specific classes of persons or things and then refers to them in general, the general statements only apply to the same kind of persons or things specifically listed. Example: if a law refers to automobiles, trucks, tractors, motorcycles and other motor-powered vehicles, "vehicles" would not include airplanes, since the list was of land-based transportation. </FONT>

May I ask, please where this term is found? from a law dictionary?


Thanks!


goldphoenix