In Re Wallace W.

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• emphasizing legislative acquiescence to interpretation by highest court of Maryland as indicative of legislative intent
• restating the basic rule of statutory construction that no word, clause, sentence or phrase should be rendered surplusage, superfluous, meaningless, or nugatory.
• ejusdem generis is “based on ‘the supposition that if the legislature had intended the general words to be construed in an unrestricted sense, it would not have enumerated the specific things’ ”
• “ ‘The doctrine of ejusdem generis 8 applies when the following conditions exist: (1) the statute contains an enumeration by specific words; (2) the members of the enumeration suggest a class; (3) the class is not exhausted by the enumeration; (4
• discussing the rule of ejusdem generis

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