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· 7/17/1989

Estate of David v. Snelson

Citations

  • 776 P.2d 813
  • 13 Brief Times Rptr. 869
  • 1989 Colo. LEXIS 250
  • 1989 WL 77535

How courts have described this case

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  • noting that the General Assembly had “expressly repudiated” the last– antecedent rule and choosing instead to apply the series–qualifier canon
  • “When a referential or qualifying clause follows several words or phrases and is applicable as much to the first word or phrase as to the others in the list, . . . the clause should be applied to all of the words or phrases that preceded it.”

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Judges: Yollack, Erickson

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