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severability clause

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From 286 U.S. 165 - Utah Power & Light Co. v. Pfost · 1932Most cited · 485 citing opinions

it has the effect of reversing the common-law presumption, that the Legislature intends an act to be effective as an entirety, by putting in its place the opposite presumption of divisibility; and this presumption must be overcome by considerations that make evident the inseparability of the provisions or the clear probability that the Legislature would not have been satisfied with the statute unless it had included the invalid part.

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