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State v. Jacobs

Citations

  • 472 A.2d 1247
  • 144 Vt. 70
  • 1984 Vt. LEXIS 416

How courts have described this case

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

  • recognizing that it is not “a legitimate function of this Court to expand a statute by implication, that is, by reading into it something which is not there, unless it is necessary in order to make it effective”
  • explaining that this Court will not “expand a statute by implication, that is, by reading into it something which is not there, unless it is necessary in order to make it effective”
  • explaining that it is inappropriate “to expand a statute by implication, that is, by reading into it something which is not there, unless it is necessary in order to make it effective”
  • explaining that it is inappropriate “to expand a statute by implication, that is, by reading into it something which is not there, unless it is necessary in order to make it effective”
  • declining to adopt specific standards for transfer to juvenile court under § 635(b) because it is not a \legitimate function of this Court to expand a statute by implication ... unless it is necessary in order to make it effective\
  • declining to adopt specific standards for transfer to juvenile court under § 635(b) because it is not a “legitimate function of this Court to expand a statute by implication . . . unless it is necessary in order to make it effective”

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Judges: Billings, Hill, Underwood, Peck, Gibson

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