BORROWED-STATUTES DOCTRINE

BORROWED-STATUTES DOCTRINE

borrowed-statutes doctrine. The principle that if one state adopts a statute identical to that of another state, any settled judicial construction of that statute by the courts of the other state is binding on the courts of the state that later enacts the statute. [Cases: Courts 95(2); Statutes 226. C.J.S. Courts ¡ì 157; Statutes ¡ì¡ì 358¨C361.]
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