surplusage
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| —n | |
| 1. | law (in pleading, etc) irrelevant matter, such as a superfluous allegation |
| 2. | an excess of words |
| 3. | a less common word for surplus |
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Surplusage
is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
Example sentences
On a defendant's motion the court may strike surplusage from the indictment.
It is well settled that no provision of law should be construed so as to render a word or clause surplusage.
It would be mere surplusage to dwell further upon the influence of the grotesque in the third civilization.
At times, words in indictments may properly be labeled as surplusage.
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