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He regards the Government as one of limited powers and all those powers are enumerated in the Constitution and "expression unius, est exclusio alterius."
Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians John Hill 1884
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Update: I should have added that the statutory language specifically exempts accountants, tax preparers, lawyers, and a few other professions from its reach, which under the exlusio unius would tend to further suggest that dentists and other health care providers would not be excluded.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Could Senator Dodd’s Consumer Protection Bureau Regulate Dentists? 2010
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Verum quia non est expressum de quantitate fenestrarum, ordino, quod maior fenestra duplicata in longitudine sex pedes habeat, spacium sive banca inter cancellos unius pedis et palmi, cancelli duplices ferrei et quadratis virgis ita stricti, ut ne ovum galline possit transmitti.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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Update: I should have added that the statutory language specifically exempts accountants, tax preparers, lawyers, and a few other professions from its reach, which under the exlusio unius would tend to further suggest that dentists and other health care providers would not be excluded.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Could Senator Dodd’s Consumer Protection Bureau Regulate Dentists? 2010
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‘Quod est inferius est sicut quod est superius, et quod est superius est sicut quod est inferius, ad perpetranda miracula rei unius.’
The Poet Prince KATHLEEN MCGOWAN 2010
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Your second paragraph likewise misses the mark in invoking expressio unius.
Today's news: Obama wins the Presidency! Ann Althouse 2009
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Even so, it would specifically violate the Tenth, as well as the principle that expressio unius est exclusio alterius.
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Even so, it would specifically violate the Tenth, as well as the principle that expressio unius est exclusio alterius.
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(The Latin term for this interpretive rule is expressio unius est exclusio alterius.)
Breaking: Reid Will Force An All-Night Filibuster On Iraq 2009
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A canon of statutory interpretation is "expressio unius est exclusio alterius" the expression of one thing is the exclusion of another.
Today's news: Obama wins the Presidency! Ann Althouse 2009
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