Vocelle v. Knight Brothers Paper Company

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• holding that \neither the courts nor the administrative agencies have power to modify the plain purpose and intent of the legislature as expressed by the language employed in the statutes\
• “Every statute must be construed as a whole and the legislative intent determined, if it be possible, from what is said in the statute.”
• when a statute contains the definition of a word, that meaning must be ascribed to the word whenever it is repeated in the same statute, unless a contrary intent clearly appears

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