What is the test for attributing significance to a word, phrase, sentence and part of a rule?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Perez, 148 Cal.App.4th 353, 55 Cal.Rptr.3d 683 (Cal. App. 2007):
Shewry (2004) 125 Cal.App.4th 259, 265,22 Cal.Rptr.3d 696.) "If possible, we attribute significance to every word, phrase, sentence and part of a rule in pursuit of its underlying purpose, as its various parts must be harmonized by considering them in the context of the rule framework as a whole." (Lammers v. Superior Court (2000) 83 Cal.App.4th 1309, 1321, 100 Cal. Rptr.2d 455.)
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