People v. Seepersad

How courts have described this case

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• noting that courts must presume that, in enacting a statute, “the General Assembly did not intend an absurd result”
• “Governing presumptions include that the General Assembly intended the entire statute at issue to be effective and certain, and that the General Assembly did not intend an absurd result. 1 Pa.C.S. § 1922(1)-(2)”
• a successful defense to a mortgage foreclosure action is not an \action\ for purposes of 41 P.S. § 503
• “Words that have [] precise and settled meanings in the legal realm must be interpreted consistently therewith.”
• a successful defense to a mortgage foreclosure action is not an “action” for purposes of 41 P.S. §503
• we “may not ignore the language of a statute, nor may we deem any language to be superfluous”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).