Surplusage

In jurisprudence, surplusage is language within a document that has no legal relevance to a cause, and may thus be ignored.

[1] Another use of the term is in statutory interpretation.

Where one reading of a statute would make one or more parts of the statute redundant and another reading would avoid the redundancy, the other reading is preferred.

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