Brooks v. Zabka

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• \[Tlhe 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.'\
• “In construing statute, definite article ‘the’ particularizes the subject which it precedes and is word of limitation as opposed to indefinite or generalizing force ‘a’ or ‘an’.”
• “It is a rule of law well-established that the definite article ‘the’ particularizes the subject which it precedes. It is a word of limitation....” (citation omitted)
• \the definite article `the' particularizes the subject which it precedes ... [and] is a word of limitation as opposed to the indefinite or generalizing force of `a'\
• “the definite article ‘the’ particularizes the subject which it precedes ... [and] is a word of limitation as opposed to the indefinite or generalizing force of ‘a’ ”
• the definite article “the” “is a word of limitation as opposed to the indefinite or generalizing force of ‘a’ or ‘an’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).