Social:Surplusage

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Short description: Jurisprudential term

In jurisprudence, surplusage is language within a document that has no legal relevance to a cause, and may thus be ignored.[1]

Another use of the term is in statutory interpretation. Where one reading of a statute would make one or more parts of the statute redundant and another reading would avoid the redundancy, the other reading is preferred.[2]

References

  1. "surplusage". Cornell Law School. https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/surplusage. 
  2. Golden, John M. (2015). "Redundancy: When Law Repeats Itself". Texas Law Review 94: 629.