The phrase indicates that enumerated items are examples rather than a complete list. It appears in pleadings, briefs, and statutory quotations to signal selective citation.
It preserves reliance on unmentioned items.
Alternative Names:
Among Other Things|Among Others
Why it Matters?
Using the phrase in pleadings preserves the ability to rely on grounds not specifically enumerated, which matters where a party later identifies additional bases for a claim or defense. It also defeats an expressio unius argument that the enumeration was intended as exhaustive. In quotations it signals that intervening statutory text was omitted, which is a candor requirement rather than a stylistic choice.
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Why use the phrase in pleadings?
What does it signal in quotations?
