Sec. 3. In the construction of the statutes of this state, the rules stated in sections 3a to 3w shall be observed, unless such construction would be inconsistent with the manifest intent of the legislature.
Mich. Comp. Laws § 8.3
General rules of construction
Applied in 32 court decisions — leading case Robinson v. City of Detroit (2000)
Most recently applied in 321 Mich. App. 686 - Charles Vayda v. County of Lake (October 2017)
R.S. 1846, Ch. 1; CL 1857, 2; CL 1871, 2; How. 2; CL 1897, 50; CL 1915, 64; CL 1929, 76; Am. 1939, Act 60, Imd
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
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