Grammatical errors shall not vitiate a law. A transposition of words and clauses may be resorted to when a sentence is without meaning as it stands. Words and phrases which may be necessary to the proper interpretation of a law and which do not conflict with its obvious purpose and intent nor in any way affect its scope and operation may be added in the construction thereof.
Minn. Stat. § 645.18
GRAMMAR; SYNTAX; ELLIPSIS.
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Flaherty v. Independent School District No. 2144 (1998)
Most recently applied in State v. Ahmed (November 2010)
1941 c 492 s 18; 1979 c 8 s 1
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