Definition of Surplusage
Surplusage
sur·plus·age
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(noun)
(legal) information or material that is brought up during a pleading that is not relevant or necessary to the case;
e.g. The judge ruled that they leave the surplusage and return to the matter at hand.
(noun)
an excess or surplus of something, especially one that is non-essential;
e.g. She has a surplusage of ideas with no way to use all of them.
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