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Originally posted by coup_d'skek
Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
You haven't seen a lawyer use the word "inure" in the transitive sense? One would've thought you moved in better circles.
In any event, Dictionary.com's definition of "inure"'s intrasitive sense is incomplete. It's used in two ways: (i) come into effect, take or have effect, be applied &c , or (ii) to serve to the use or benefit of (e.g., the donation inured to the benefit of the charity).
Other dictionaries, perhaps even yours, include a broader definition of the intransitive sense.
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All these lawyers and no one has noted that inure is a term of art, set out in section 501(c)(3) of the tax code (no part of the net earnings of a charity may inure to a private individual) and defined in the regulations as well as various rulings and cases?!?!!
Class, please, remember that dictionaries constitute neither statutes nor caselaw, and thus have no precedential value unless cited by said statutes or caselaw. The legal term of art is not subject to amendment by the rabble, even when the rabble have JDs.
