Commonwealth Life Ins. v. Hughes

How courts have described this case

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

• “Such circular definitions are inherently ambiguous as they require additional information outside the definition to actually define the term being defined.”
• A circular definition, in which “the term being defined is used within its own definition” is “inherently ambiguous as [it] require[s] additional information outside the definition to actually define the term being defined.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).