Backman v. Bates

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “The maxim ‘expressio unius est, exclusio alterius,’ the express mention of one thing implies the exclusion of another, is frequently quoted in our courts .... This maxim applies, in the first place, rather in the construction of contracts than statutes . .. .”
• “The maxim ‘expressio unius est, exclusio alterius,’ the express mention of one thing implies the exclusion of another, is frequently quoted in our courts . . . This maxim applies, in the first place, rather in the construction of contracts than statutes . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).