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.
1 Fletcher Davis late 1880s, Athens, Texas. 2  In 1974, The New York Times published a story about Louis' Lunch claiming to have invented the hamburger. 3  According to the McDonald's hamburger chain, the inventor was an unknown food vendor at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.