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· 10/21/1918

Columbia-Knickerbocker Trust Co. v. Abbot

Citations

  • 248 U.S. 558
  • 39 S. Ct. 6
  • 63 L. Ed. 420
  • 1918 U.S. LEXIS 1842

How courts have described this case

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  • “[A] legislature says in a statute what it means and means in a statute what it says there.” (internal citations omitted)
  • \`\[C]ourts must presume that a legislature says in a statute what it means and means in a statute what it says there.\'\ (quoting Martin v. Randolph County Bd. of Educ., 195 W.Va. 297, 312, 465 S.E.2d 399, 414 (1995
  • “ ‘ “[Cjourts must presume that a legislature says in a statute what it means and means in a statute what it says there.” ’ ” (quoting Martin v. Randolph County Bd. of Educ., 195 W.Va. 297, 312, 465 S.E.2d 399, 414 (1995

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