Supreme Court of New Jersey September 22, 1952 (State v. Doto)

Hei-ibr, J.,

concurring. The principle of separability is in aid of the intention of the lawgiver. The inquiry is whether the lawmaking body designed that the enactment should stand or fall as a unitary whole. It is not enough that the act be severable in fact; its severability in the event of partial invalidity must also have been within the legislative intention.