Lexicographical Neighbors of Plussage
Literary usage of Plussage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Archives of Maryland by Maryland Historical Society (1899)
"... Lord Proprietary & also a Remonstrance to his Lordp relating to Sur- plussage
Lands which being layd before the house were read. ..."
2. The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut [1636-1776] by Connecticut, Connecticut General Assembly, Connecticut Council, Council of Safety (Conn.)., James Hammond Trumbull, Charles Jeremy Hoadly (1868)
"... to order and make a just distribution of the sur- plussage or remaining goods
and estate of any such intestate as well reall as ..."
3. Reports of Cases at Law and in Equity, Argued and Determined in the Supreme by Alabama Supreme Court (1844)
"We think these words sur- plussage, and that the declaration would have been
sufficient if it had stated merely that an execution had issued on this ..."
4. The Great Schools of England by Howard Staunton (1865)
"Seeing then you will have all applied to the School use, I agree thereto, and
have made Sur- plussage first, to serve that use, neither have disannulled the ..."
5. The Law of Pleading in Civil Actions and Defenses Under the Code: Also by Edgar Benton Kinkead (1898)
"... there is a failure of proof;2 but where all of a charge or claim is not proven
but a portion is, that not proven may be treated as sur- plussage, ..."
6. A Student Reverie: An Album of Saxony Days (Freiberg Near Dresden)by Frederick Gleason Corning by Frederick Gleason Corning (1920)
"... for here in new uplifting surroundings and so far from home, the young people
had gained a sort of plussage in attraction and consequence, ..."
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