| The ejusdem generis rule is intended to guard against accidental omissions and it cannot be a cure for poor or inadequate drafting. |
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| According to many authors in the literature, a treaty shall be interpreted through application of the principle of ejusdem generis. |
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| It is thought that nowadays it would be unusual for the scope of general sweeper up words to be cut down under the ejusdem generis rule. |
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| In the construction of laws, wills, and other instruments, when certain things are enumerated, it is generally confined to things ejusdem generis. |
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| In the whole scheme of legislation, by the application of the doctrine of ejusdem generis the legislation is presumed to use the general words in a restricted sense. |
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| This rule is commonly called the ejusdem generis rule, because it teaches us that broad and comprehensive expressions in an act, are usually to be restricted to persons or things of the same class. |
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| It is unnecessary to speculate whether the ejusdem generis rule ought to be applied to the wording of an international convention having the force of law in this country. |
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| To aid in this problem of statutory construction, Commerce turned to the doctrine of ejusdem generis. |
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| For my part I would reach that conclusion not by the rather blunt instrument of the ejusdem generis rule but from a combination of contextual indications. |
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| It further argued that the ejusdem generis rule of construction did not apply because it was only to be used where there was uncertainty as to the meaning of a particular clause in a statute. |
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| The Court also held that the organic matter contemplated by the agreement was plant material, not animal, by interpreting the terms of the agreement with the ejusdem generis rule. |
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| This report does not deal with another, close variant, namely the ejusdem generis rule, that is the rule of interpretation according to which special words control the meaning of general ones. |
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| It would permit the making of ejusdem generis regulations as those authorized in the other sections of the Act providing for the issuing of Regulations. |
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| Under the ejusdem generis rule of interpretation, a word of general meaning in a list of specific terms is usually given a restricted meaning consistent with the specific terms. |
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| Ejusdem generis is a common rule of construction applied to all types of legal documents, including deeds, leases, and other instruments conveying or reserving mineral interests. |
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