vestigial words or phrases
- vestigial words or phrases
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Words or phrases which have been permitted to remain in a statute after it has been amended, but which are rendered useless and meaningless by the amendment. Saltonstall v Birtwell, 164 US 54, 70, 41 L Ed 348, 353, 17 S Ct 19.
Ballentine's law dictionary.
Anderson, W.S..
1998.
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