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verba legis is a constitutional construction principle which means that

wherever possible

Casus omissus pro omisso habendus est. A person, object, or thing


omitted from an enumeration in a statute must be held to have been
omitted intentionally. It is not for this Court to supply such grant of
scholarship where the legislature has omitted it.

Generalia verba sunt generaliter intelligenda [Lat.], general words are to be


understood generally

expressio unius est exclusio alterius n. [New Latin, the explicit mention of
one (thing) is the exclusion of another] : a principle in statutory construction:
when one or more things of a class are expressly mentioned others of the
same class are excluded.

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