People v. Morey

How courts have described this case

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• providing that this Court may refer to dictionary definitions in the absence of an explicit definition in the text being interpreted
• recognizing the principle of construction that “ ‘[t]he fair and natural import of the terms employed, in view of the subject matter of the law, is what should govern’ ”
• statute that prohibits profiting from prostitution containing knowledge requirement constitutional because it \could not reasonably be applied to entirely innocent conduct\
• “[W]e may turn to dictionary definitions to aid our goal of construing those terms in accordance with their ordinary and generally accepted meanings.”
• \[W]e may turn to dictionary definitions to aid our goal of construing those terms in accordance with their ordinary and generally accepted meanings.\
• “Where, as here, the Legislature has not expressly defined terms used within a statute, we may turn to dictionary definitions to aid our goal of construing those terms in accordance with their ordinary and generally accepted meanings.”

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