Ejusdem generis is a secondary/subsidiary rule of interpretation which literally means of the same kind or same nature. The rule of Ejusdem Generis is intended to be applied where general words have been used following particular and specific words of the same nature on the established rule of construction that the legislature presumed to use the general words in a restricted sense that is to say, as belonging to the same genus as the particular and specific words. 
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