Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Ex antecedentibus et consequentibus fit op tima interpretatio
The best interpretation i; made from what precedes and what follow 1.
Idem semper antecedenti proximo refertur.
Idem (the same) always refers to the nearest antecedent.
antecedent
adj. earlier; preexisting; previous. - antecedent (preceding thing), n. - antecedence (quality or fact of going before), n.
antecedent claim
a preexisting claim. ( under the ucc, a holder takes an instrument for value if it is taken for an antecedent claim. ucc ยง 3-303
antecedent debt
1. Contracts. An old debt that may serve as consideration for a new promise if the statute of limitations has run on the old debt. See PREEXISTING-DUTY RULE. 2. Bankruptcy. A debtor's prepetition obligation that existed before a debtor's transfer of an interest in property. ( For a transfer to be preferential, it must be for or on account of an antecedent debt. See PREFERENTIAL TRANSFER.
doctrine of the last antecedent
See RULE OF THE LAST ANTECEDENT.
doctrine of the last preceding antecedent.
RULE OF THE LAST ANTECEDENT.
last antecedent, rule of the
See RULE OF THE LAST ANTECEDENT.
rule of the last antecedent
An interpretative principle by which a court determines that qualifying words or phrases modify the words or phrases immediately preceding them and not words or phrases more remote, unless the extension is necessary from the context or the spirit of the entire writing. ( For example, an application of this rule might mean that, in the phrase Texas courts, New Mexico courts, and New York courts in the federal system, the words in the federal system might be held to modify only New York courts and not Texas courts or New Mexico courts. - Also termed doctrine of the last antecedent; doctrine of the last preceding antecedent.