Error in name does not make an instrument inoperative when the description is sufficiently clear.
C. IMPLICATIONS
20. Ex necessitate legis.
By the necessary implication of law.
Chapter V INTERPRETATION OF
WORDS AND PHRASES
A. IN GENERAL
B. ASSOCIATED WORDS
28. Noscitur a sociis.
A thing is known by its associates.
Referring each to each, or referring each phrase or expression to its appropriate object, or let each
be put in its proper place.
B. STATUTE CONSTRUED IN
RELATION TO CONSTITUTION AND
OTHER STATUTES
38. Pari materia.
Of the same matter.
Mutatis mutandis.
With the necessary changes.
A. IN GENERAL
40. Salus populi est suprema lex.
The voice of the people is the supreme law.
B. STATUTES STRICTLY
CONSTRUED
41. Actus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea.
The act does not make a person guilty unless the mind is also guilty.