Are Stuffed Definitions legally binding?

A stuffed definition* is a legal definition that includes “substanative law” in addition to the definition. This makes the law “hidden” from someone who is reading a legal code, ordinance, etc.

Question: Are the laws included in stuffed definitions legally binding? If one were to get burned by a stuffed definition, could one appeal to the judge to side in one’s favor because the law was hidden or definition stuffed or whatever?

Curiously yours,

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