Pleasants Investments Ltd. Partnership v. State Department of Assessments & Taxation

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “the indefinite article ‘a’ is implied to mean ‘one’ or ‘each,’ subject to context”
• rejecting property owners' argument that \a\ meant \any\ in tax exemption statute and distinguishing Lewis v. Spies, 43 A.D.2d 714, 350 N.Y.S.2d 14 (1973)
• relying on context to conclude that the word \a\ means one
• construing an alternate definition of “a,” within the context of a land use statute to require only one land use, and not more than one; looking to Black’s Law Dictionary (6th ed.1990) and quoting the dictionary’s assertion that “the meaning depends on context”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).