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· 7/5/1994

Rose v. Fox Pool Corp.

Citations

  • 643 A.2d 906
  • 335 Md. 351
  • 1994 Md. LEXIS 92

How courts have described this case

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  • stating that statutory interpretation begins with the statutory language itself and the words of the statute need to be understood in their ordinary meanings
  • considering the legislative history of § 5-108 to hold that the statute was applicable to a cause of action concerning an injury that arose from a latent defect in the construction of a swimming pool
  • using similar reasoning and reaching same conclusion as to similar exclusion
  • reaching same conclusion on similar reasoning in interpreting similar statutory language
  • “[A] statute must be construed as a whole so that no word, clause, sentence or phrase is rendered surplusage, superfluous, meaningless or nugatory.”
  • both of which rely on a similar definition of \improvement\ as defined in Black's Law Dictionary

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