A Latin term literally meaning "of the same kind".

This is a common law principle for construing legislation. A syntactical presumption may be made that a general word that appears at the end of a list of specific words, forming a class or genus, is limited by the words that appear in that class or genus. Other common syntactical presumptions are expressio unius est exclusio alterius and generalia specialibus non derogant.

See also Practice note: overview, Construing federal legislation .