Shires Housing, Inc. v. Carolyn S. Brown and William A. Shepard, II, 172 A.3d 1215 (2017)

Citation: Shires Housing, Inc. v. Carolyn S. Brown and William A. Shepard, II, 172 A.3d 1215 (2017)
Parent Document: Shires Housing, Inc. v. Carolyn S. Brown and William A. Shepard, II, 172 A.3d 1215 (2017)
Jurisdiction: Vermont (state)
Effective Date: 2017-07-21
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/4489424/shires-housing-inc-v-carolyn-s-... ↗

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Moreover, the presence or absence of punctuation should not influence the court's construction where, as in this case, the intent of the Legislature may be determined from consideration of the statute as a whole. Hill, 143 Vt. at 94, 463 A.2d at 234 ("[I]t is the general rule that punctuation, per se, forms no part of a statute and will not govern its construction as against the manifest intent of the [L]egislature ascertained from a consideration of the statute as a whole."). --- 010combined ---

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