Definition of ejusdem generis in English:
ejusdem generis
(also eiusdem generis)
adjective & adverbeɪˌ(j)ʊsdɛm ˈdʒɛnɛrɪs
Law 1Of or as the same kind.
Example sentencesExamples
- Mr Evans on behalf of the defendant would say that it should be construed eiusdem generis.
- The competing possibilities on 8.2.3 are these: firstly, that the words ‘any act’ are to be construed, as it were, ejusdem generis, that is, it means any act attended by fault, because every other expression in 8.2.3 is a fault expression.
- References to "other" and "otherwise" shall not be construed eiusdem generis where a wider construction is possible.
- There are various possibilities: that they are to be construed eiusdem generis.
- 1.1as adjective Denoting a rule for interpreting statutes and other writings by assuming that a general term describing a list of specific terms denotes other things that are like the specific elements.
Example sentencesExamples
- By use of the term ‘prevention by illness’ and a ejusdem generis construction is, in substance, what has occurred.
- It is impossible to discern what meaning should be attributed to ‘domestic’ using the doctrine of ejusdem generis, as these categories are inherently not ‘of the same kind’.
- Glidewell LJ, in a judgment with which Cresswell J agreed, applied the ejusdem generis rule to the construction of s.141 [and then he cites from that].
- For my part I would reach that conclusion not by the rather blunt instrument of the ejusdem generis rule but from a combination of contextual indications.
- He had based his ruling upon the absence of any reference to ‘public authority’ in the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946 and the application of the ejusdem generis rule.’
- He relies upon the ejusdem generis principle coupled with the statutory history which dates back to 1855.
- It is unnecessary to speculate whether the ejusdem generis rule ought to be applied to the wording of an international convention having the force of law in this country.