- ejusdem generis
- a Latin phrase meaning ‘of the same kind’: a rule of legal interpretation that when a word or phrase follows two or more other words or phrases, it is construed to be of the same type as the words or phrases which precede it
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phrase
COMMENT For example, in the phrase houses, flats and other buildings, other buildings can mean only other dwellings, and would not include, for example, a church.