Chaffee v. Miami Transfer Company, Inc.

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• the Court has no authority to supply additional words to or modify the meaning of a duly enacted statute
• Attorney General's Office has no authority to supply additional words to or modify the meaning of a duly enacted statute
• “Usually, the courts in construing a statute may not insert words or phrases in the statute or supply an omission....”
• court in construing statute cannot invoke limitation or add words to statute not placed there by the Legislature
• court in construing statute cannot invoke a limitation or add words to the statute not placed there by the Legislature
• the Court has no authority to supply additional words to or modify the meaning of a duly enacted statute

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