2.2 Subsidiary Rules (the Latin maxims' bank)

2.2.1 Ejusdem generis ("of the same kind"): the general words following the specific words construed as limited to the same genus — the "dogs, cats, and other animals" craft (the general tail read as the specific heads' kind); the rationale: the legislature's enumeration's implication; the conditions: the specific-and-general sequence + the genus's discernibility; the exception: the general words' unconfined sweep (the fully-general enumeration's absence). 2.2.2 Noscitur a Sociis ("known by its companions"): the word's meaning gathered from its associates — the accompanying words' colour (the doubtful term read in the neighbours' light); the craft's difference from ejusdem generis (the sociis = the single word's company-craft; the ejusdem = the general- following-specific structure). 2.2.3 Reddendo singula singulis ("referring each to each"): the pairing rule — the multiple subjects and predicates matched each-to-each (the "dogs-and-cats, barking-and-meowing" distribution: the first-subject-to-first-predicate craft); the reading's utility: the multiple-clause sentences' sensible distribution. 2.2.4 Expressio unius est exclusio alterius ("the expression of one is the exclusion of the other"): the enumeration's negative implication — the list's mention EXCLUDES the unmentioned (the "X, Y and Z" = not-W); the rationale: the deliberate selection's presumption; the critique: the incomplete-lists' reality (the enumeration not always exclusory — the canon's careful application). 2.2.5 Contemporanea expositio ("contemporary exposition"): the old statute's meaning by the enactment-era practice — the long-standing contemporary interpretation-and-application as…