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Riggs v. Palmer
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Riggs v. Palmer
Riggs v. Palmer
, 115 N.Y. 506 (1889), is an important
New York
state civil court case, in which the
Court of Appeals of New York
issued an 1889 opinion.
Riggs
was an example of the judiciary using the "
social purpose
" rule of
statutory construction
, the process of interpreting and applying
legislation
.
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