Showing posts with label Latin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Latin. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

My first Latin

expressio unius (a.k.a. expressio unius est exclusio alterius) - to express one thing, at least in a statute, is to exclude other things that have not been mentioned

ejusdem generis - of the same genus or class, applies to catch-all words after an enumerated list