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Code · Montana · Title 1 — General Laws and Definitions · Chapter 2 · Part 1

1-2-101. Role of the judge -- preference to construction giving each provision meaning.

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1-2-101 . Role of the judge -- preference to construction giving each provision meaning. In the construction of a statute, the office of the judge is simply to ascertain and declare what is in terms or in substance contained therein, not to insert what has been omitted or to omit what has been inserted. Where there are several provisions or particulars, such a construction is, if possible, to be adopted as will give effect to all.
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