California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Halbert's Lumber, Inc. v. Lucky Stores, Inc., 6 Cal.App.4th 1233, 8 Cal.Rptr.2d 298 (Cal. App. 1992):
Emphasis on the words "pro tanto" also begs the question. For so much as what? For as much as what may be? As far as what goes? When read in context (see Johnstone v. Richardson (1951) 103 Cal.App.2d 41, 46, 229 P.2d 9 [words of a statute "must be construed in context"] ), the words "pro tanto" take their meaning
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