What is the meaning of the words "e.g." in the California Civil Code and what is the effect of those words?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Melamed v. City of Long Beach, 15 Cal.App.4th 70, 18 Cal.Rptr.2d 729 (Cal. App. 1993):
The literal words of a statute may be disregarded, however, to avoid absurd results or to give effect to manifest purposes that, in light of the statute's legislative history, appear from its provisions considered as a whole. (County of Sacramento v. Hickman (1967) 66 Cal.2d 841, 849, fn. 6, 59 Cal.Rptr. 609, 428 P.2d 593.)
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