Beasley v. People

How courts have described this case

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

• “ ‘[T]hing of value’ as used in the short check felony statute is a phrase of sufficient generic import to encompass clearly within its meaning an executed lien waiver.”
• \[T]he definite article 'the' particularizes the subject which it precedes. It is a word of limitation as opposed to the indefinite or generalizing force of 'a' or 'an.'\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).