California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Katsaris v. Cook, 180 Cal.App.3d 256, 225 Cal.Rptr. 531 (Cal. App. 1986):
It is a standard rule of statutory construction that statutes are to be interpreted so as to give meaning to all of the words in them. (Moyer v. Workmen's Comp. Appeals Bd. (1973) 10 Cal.3d 222, 230, 110 Cal.Rptr. 144, 514 P.2d 1224.) The majority's reading of section 31103 flies blythly over this well-settled rule and continues in flight high above and in total disregard for the legislative origins of the two "complimentary" code sections and in short departs from the catalogue of common sense.
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