Idle and nugatory construction

I am re-reading Agpalo's Statutory Construction. So I immediately felt that something was amiss in this passage on page 14 of a political law reviewer, 2015 edition:

I know I've met this phrase somewhere in Agpalo's text. And indeed there it was on page 626 of the 2009 Edition of the book:

Since the author quoted from Cooley's treatise, what better way than to check with it. This is the cover page of his ancient work:

Note the long title which reminds me of the complete title of Darwin's seminal book on evolution.

On page 92 Cooley wrote:

It seems the author missed a few words. Cooley's treatise is available here for download.

And yes, Darwin's book is also available for download here.