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West Virginia Supreme Court· 1/30/1979

State Ex Rel. Johnson v. Robinson

Citations

  • 251 S.E.2d 505
  • 162 W. Va. 579
  • 1979 W. Va. LEXIS 337

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • recognizing rule of construction that “the Legislature is presumed to intend that every word used in a statute has a specific purpose and meaning”
  • recognizing rule of construction that \the Legislature is presumed to intend that every word used in a statute has a specific purpose and meaning\
  • recognizing the presumption that the Legislature intends “that every word used in a statute has a specific purpose and meaning.”
  • observing “that the Legislature is presumed to intend that every word used in a statute has a specific purpose and meaning”
  • rejecting construction of authority that renders other provisions “redundant, superfluous and without meaning[]”
  • “It is a well known rule of statutory construction that the Legislature is presumed to intend that every word used in a statute has a specific purpose and meaning.”

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Judges: McGraw

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