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expressio unius est exclusio alterius

The English word “expressio unius est exclusio alterius” has 1 meaning listed here.

phrase

  1. A canon of construction holding that, when a legal document includes a list, anything not in that list is assumed to be purposely excluded.

Etymology

From Latin.

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