Ejusdem Generis
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
Of the same kind, class or nature. In statutory construction, the "ejusdem generis rule" is that where general words follow an enumeration of persons or things, by words of a particular and specific meaning, such general words are not to be construed in their widest extent, but are to be held as applying only to persons or things of the same general kind or class as those specifically mentioned. Black, Interp.
Laws, 141; Co.tshaw v. Denver, 19 Colo. App. 341, 75 Pac. 22; Ex parte Le-land, 1 Nott & McC. (S. C.) 462; Spalding . People, 172 In. 40, 49 N. E. 993.