ABSTRACT
This is a rule that is somewhat like the class rule.1 It is known to lawyers as the noscitur a sociis rule, and is a rule for finding the meaning of a word which could have one of several meanings, and it is a rule which finds that meaning by considering the meaning of other words with which that word is associated in the section. Unlike the class rule, however, this rule does not depend upon having a broad general word following after two or more specific words: the question resolved by this rule is likely to be a question as to the width or scope to be given to a specific word within a group of specific words.
