Surplusage

Avoiding surplusage is important, especially since judges have enough to read. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Furthermore I said to him, “O my brother, I am wont to cast up my shop accounts at the head of every year, and whatso I shall find of surplusage is between me and thee.” ❋ Unknown (2006)

Evidently, then, self-sacrifice may be wide-spread and may permeate the institutions of ordinary life; being found even in occupations primarily ordered by principles of give and take, where it expresses itself in a kind of surplusage of giving above what is prescribed in the contract. ❋ George Herbert Palmer (1887)

The hypothesis of female preference, stripped of the aesthetic surplusage which is psychologically both unnecessary and unproven, is really only different in degree from that which Mr. Wallace admits in principle when he says that it is probable that the female is pleased or excited by the display. ❋ Gustav Schwalbe (1880)

"surplusage" as though he were to give a written declaration that he was ❋ Charles James Lever (1839)

Instead, we conclude that the General Assembly removed this phrase because it was aware of our prior decisions and the constitutional import of the detriment to the child determination, and believed that including the detriment to the child language — which referenced a long-standing constitutional standard that existed independent of the statute itself — was mere surplusage. ❋ Unknown (2010)

“Gun box” and “case” have the same meaning (rendering one term in a list mere surplusage) if we say so. ❋ Unknown (2010)

By the way, I agree with Richard Riley that “and subject to the police power thereof” is a surplusage, and such surplusage may actually turn out to be quite dangerous. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The phrase “and subject to the police power thereof” seems surplusage. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This final clause strikes me as surplusage, and I would think it invites mischief: whether it employs instrumentalities therefrom, or whether its regulation or prohibition is part of a comprehensive federal regulatory scheme. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And the olive, a mere surplusage perhaps, but without it, the martini is too modest, too plain ❋ Con Chapman (2011)

The temperature has already so moderated that the men are beginning to shed their surplusage of clothing, and they no longer wrap sacking about their sea-boots. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It seems she has only to look at a dish, no matter who has cooked it, and immediately divine its lack or its surplusage, and prescribe a treatment that transforms it into something indescribably different and delicious -- My, how I do eat! ❋ Unknown (2010)

This final clause strikes me as surplusage, and I would think it invites mischief: ❋ Unknown (2010)

“Gun box” and “case” have the same meaning rendering one term in a list mere surplusage if we say so. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A bit of advice from another American genius, Ariadna: "Eschew surplusage." by ❋ Unknown (2009)