How have courts interpreted the meaning of a statute requiring certainty and lack of ambiguity?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Kirk, 122 Cal.Rptr. 653, 49 Cal.App.3d 765 (Cal. App. 1975):
The required meaning, certainty and lack of ambiguity may appear on the face of the questioned statute or from any demonstrably established technical or common law meaning of the language in question (People v. McCaughan, Supra, 49 Cal.2d at p. 414, 317 P.2d at p. 974).'
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