context: On the other hand, such canons are routinely discarded when they do not further a statute's remedial purposes.
citation_a.signal: cf.
citation_a.identifier: 140 Vt. 501, 511
citation_a.parenthetical: "Rules of construction are not laws, hard and inflexible, which must be applied in a given situation simply because it is possible to do so."
citation_a.sentence: See Herman & MacLean v. Huddleston, 459 U.S. 375, 387 n.23 (1983); see also Hardesty v. Andró Corp., 555 P.2d 1030, 1036 (Okla. 1976) (expressio unius maxim is “to be applied with great caution, is not of universal application, and is not conclusive as to the meaning of a statute”); cf. State v. Baldwin, 140 Vt. 501, 511, 438 A.2d 1135,1140 (1981) (“Rules of construction are not laws, hard and inflexible, which must be applied in a given situation simply because it is possible to do so.”). As noted, the Legislature passed the 1976 amendment, not to limit the damages available to the relatives of adult decedents, but rather to further the remedial purposes of the WDA by developing the definition of pecuniary injuries.
citation_b.signal: see also
citation_b.identifier: 555 P.2d 1030, 1036
citation_b.parenthetical: expressio unius maxim is "to be applied with great caution, is not of universal application, and is not conclusive as to the meaning of a statute"
citation_b.sentence: See Herman & MacLean v. Huddleston, 459 U.S. 375, 387 n.23 (1983); see also Hardesty v. Andró Corp., 555 P.2d 1030, 1036 (Okla. 1976) (expressio unius maxim is “to be applied with great caution, is not of universal application, and is not conclusive as to the meaning of a statute”); cf. State v. Baldwin, 140 Vt. 501, 511, 438 A.2d 1135,1140 (1981) (“Rules of construction are not laws, hard and inflexible, which must be applied in a given situation simply because it is possible to do so.”). As noted, the Legislature passed the 1976 amendment, not to limit the damages available to the relatives of adult decedents, but rather to further the remedial purposes of the WDA by developing the definition of pecuniary injuries.