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The Rule of Reddendo Singula Singulis

Reddendo singula singulis is a Latin term meaning to refer each to each, referring each phrase to its corresponding object. It is a rule of construction used when distributing property, applying each term distributively to the suitable objects.

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The Rule of Reddendo Singula Singulis

Reddendo singula singulis is a Latin term meaning to refer each to each, referring each phrase to its corresponding object. It is a rule of construction used when distributing property, applying each term distributively to the suitable objects.

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THE RULE OF REDDENDO SINGULA SINGULIS

Reddendo singula singulis is a Latin term that means by referring each to each;
referring each phrase or expression to its corresponding object. In simple words
“reddendo singula singulis” means that when a list of words has a modifying phase at
the end, the phrase refers only to the last. It is a rule of construction used usually in
distributing property. Where there are general words of description, following a
record of particular things uch general words are to be construed distributively, and
if the general words will apply to some things and not to others, the general words
are to be applied to those things to which they will, and not to those to which they
will not apply; that is to say, each phrase, word or expression is to be referred to its
suitable objects.

The best example of reddendo singula singulis is quoted from Wharton’s law Lexicon,
“If anyone shall draw or load any sword or gun the word draw is applied to sword
only and the word load to gun only, the former verb to former noun and latter to
latter, because it is impossible to load a sword or to draw a gun, and so of other
applications of different sets of words to one another.” The reddendo singula
singulis principle concerns the use of words distributively. Where a complex sentence
has more than one subject, and more than one object, it may be the right
construction to provide each to each, by reading the provision distributively and
applying each object to its appropriate subject. A similar principle applies to verbs
and their subjects, and to other parts of speech.

Thus, Reddendo singula singulis is a Latin term that means by referring each to each;
referring each phrase or expression to its corresponding object. It is a rule of
construction used typically in distributing property. For example, when a will says "I
devise and bequeath all my real and personal property to A", the principle of
reddendo singula singulis would apply as if it read "I devise all my real property, and
bequeath all my personal property, to B", since the word devise is appropriate only
to real property and the term bequeath is appropriate only to personal property.

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