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Definition of Surplusage
1. Noun. A quantity much larger than is needed.
Generic synonyms: Overabundance, Overmuch, Overmuchness, Superabundance
Definition of Surplusage
1. n. Surplus; excess; overplus; as, surplusage of grain or goods beyond what is wanted.
Definition of Surplusage
1. Noun. (rare) A surplus; a superabundance. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Surplusage
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Surplusage
Literary usage of Surplusage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law: With Occasional Notes and by Nathan Dane (1824)
"surplusage docs not prejudice; as if the deft, in replevin avows as bailiff to
A, administrator of D, where A oii^ht to distrain m his own right, ..."
2. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1889)
"Held that the latter clause was surplusage and the indictment was ... The closing
clause may be disregarded as surplusage. 1876, State v. ..."
3. Commentaries on the Law of Criminal Procedure: Or, Pleading, Evidence, and by Joel Prentiss Bishop (1872)
"Nature of surplusage, and when it does not Hurt 4s2-4s4. surplusage vitiating
the Indictment 4s5-4ss. The Doctrine of Variance. § 477. ..."
4. A Brief for the Trial of Civil Issues Before a Jury by Austin Abbott, William Charles Wermuth (1922)
"313, it is said that "if more be found than is necessary, it may be disregarded
as surplusage, but it does not vitiate that which is necessary and well ..."
5. A Treatise on Pleading, and Parties to Actions, with Second and Third by Joseph Chitty, Henry Greening, John A. Dunlap, Edward Duncan Ingraham, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1872)
"There is, however, considerable danger in surplusage in the statement of material
matter ; for where a party takes upon himself to state in any pleading a ..."
6. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1901)
"In Criminal Prosecutions likewise, whatever circumstances are necessary t »constitute
the crime imputed must be stated, and all beyond is surplusage. ..."
7. The American and English Encyclopaedia of Law by David Shephard Garland, James Cockcroft, Lucius Polk McGehee, Charles Porterfield (1904)
"surplusage is defined as matter which is not necessarily relevant to the case
... surplusage. — Adams v. Capital State Bank, be divided was ascertained at ..."
8. A Treatise on the Criminal Law of the United States by Francis Wharton (1874)
"All unnecessary words may, on trial or arrest of judgment, be rejected as
surplusage, if the indictment would be good upon striking them out. v In Redman's ..."
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