What is the test for making some words surplusage?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Ass'n v. City of S.F., 274 Cal.Rptr.3d 432, 60 Cal.App.5th 227 (Cal. App. 2021):
and ... [a] construction making some words surplusage is to be avoided. " ( People v. Valencia (2017) 3 Cal.5th 347, 357, 220 Cal.Rptr.3d 230, 397 P.3d 936.)
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