Centex International, Inc. v. South Carolina Department of Revenue  ·  2013-07-24  ·  Supreme Court of South Carolina  ·  pin 135 Colo. at 249

“The word ‘the’ is a word of limitation — a ‘word used before nouns, with a specifying or particularizing effect, opposed to the indefinite or generalizing force of ‘a’ or ‘an.’ ’ ”