severance of statute

severance of statute
The separation by judicial construction of those provisions of the statute which are constitutional from those which are unconstitutional, and striking the latter from the statute. Ballard v Mississippi Cotton Oil Co. 81 Miss 507, 34 So 533. See severability of statute.

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