Comptroller of the Treasury v. Blanton

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• indicating that legislative intent may be derived from Revisors' Notes to inform statutory construction
• recodification of statutes is presumed to be for the purpose of clarity rather than change of meaning unless there is a radical change in phraseology.
• “Maryland has long accepted the doctrine of expressio (or inclusio) unius est exclusio alterius, or the expression of one thing is the exclusion of another.”
• “Unless the Tax Court’s decision was erroneous as a matter of law, or its conclusion was not supported by substantial evidence, we must affirm the decision.”
• changes to statutory wording in code revision are presumptively non-substantive
• changes to statutory wording in code revision are presumptively non-substantive

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