Plain meaning rule. The plain meaning rule, also known as the literal rule, is one of three rules of statutory construction traditionally applied by English courts. The other two are the âmischief ruleâ and the âgolden rule.â.
There have been rival claims by Charlie Nagreen, Frank and Charles Menches, Oscar Weber Bilby, and Fletcher Davis. White Castle traces the origin of the hamburger to Hamburg, Germany with its invention by Otto Kuase.
From the September 23, 1894 Los Angeles (CA) Times: hamburger steak sandwiches.. In 1898, stories in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat and the St. Louis Republic both mentioned hamburgers--six years before that word was allegedly invented at the 1904 St. Louis fair.