LEGAL STATUTES, ANDs & ORs

I have said, a number of times, on here that when you are reading Texas statutes, you need to be careful of the ANDs & ORs that may be used in lists within them. In many of the Texas statutes, for instance the 211, you will find a list of items listed that are connected with semicolons. In the second to the last item, there will often be an AND or and OR. The AND means the list of items is ‘conjunctive’. Conjunctive means that all items within the list must be included to allow that ‘rule’ of the statute. The OR is ‘disjunctive’, meaning that any item in the list can be true to apply that ‘rule’ of the statute. Here is a very simply worded article to explain that: –> Conjunctive versus Disjunctive lists in Statutes

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