 | Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 952 pages
...matter may be submitted to the jury. In 1 Greenleaf on Evidence, Sec. 278, the rule is thus stated : "The terms of every written instrument are to be understood in their plain, ordinary, and popular sense, unloss they have generally, in respect to the subjectmatter, as by the known usage of trade, or the... | |
 | James Allan Park - Bottomry and respondentia - 1817 - 848 pages
...sense and meaning, as collected in thejirst place from the terms used in it, which terms are themselves to be understood in their plain, ordinary, and popular...sense, unless they have generally in respect to the subject-matter, as by the known usage of trade, or the like, acquired a peculiar sense distinct from... | |
 | William Selwyn - Nisi prius - 1817 - 776 pages
...according to its sense and meaning, as collected in the first place from the terms used in it, which terms are to be understood in their plain, ordinary, and popular sense, unless they have generally, in rf-spect to the subject matter, as by the known usage of trade or the like, acquired a peculiar sense... | |
 | Samuel Comyn - Contracts - 1824 - 680 pages
...and meaning, as collected, in the first place, from the terms used in it, which terms are themselves to be understood in their plain, ordinary, and popular...generally, in respect to the subject matter, as by die known usage of trade, or the like, acquired a peculiar sense, distinct from the popular sense of... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Richard Vaughan Barnewall, Sir Cresswell Cresswell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1825 - 974 pages
...Demerara. The terms of a policy are, to use the language of Lord Ettenbaraugh in Robertson v. French (a), to be understood in their plain, ordinary, and popular sense, unless they have generally in respect of the subjectmatter, as by the known usage of trade, or the like, acquired a sense distinct from the... | |
 | Thomas Starkie - Evidence (Law) - 1826 - 708 pages
...according to its sense and meaning, as collected, in the first place, from the terms used in it, which are to be understood in their plain, ordinary and...popular sense, unless they have generally in respect of the subject, as by the known usage of trade, or the like, acquired a peculiar sense distinct from... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1830 - 1076 pages
...and meaning, as collected in the first place from the terms used in it ; which terms are themselves to be understood in their plain, ordinary, and popular...sense, unless they have generally, in respect to the subjectmatter, (as, by the known usage of trade or the like,) acquired a peculiar sense distinct from... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Bayly Moore, Joseph Payne - Law reports, digests, etc - 1832 - 874 pages
...meaning, as collected, in the first place, from the terms used in them, which terms are themselves to be understood in their plain, ordinary, and popular...sense, unless they have generally, in respect to the subject-matter, as by the known usage of trade or the like, acquired a peculiar sense distinct from... | |
 | George Beaumont - Fire insurance - 1833 - 134 pages
...construed according to their sense and meaning as collected from the terms used in them, which terms are to be understood in their plain, ordinary and popular sense, unless by the known use of trade they have acquired a peculiar meaning, or unless the context points out that,... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, James Manning, Archer Ryland, Joseph A. Harris, William Botsford - Law reports, digests, etc - 1837 - 826 pages
...by Lord Tenterden in Lungv. Atiderdon(b}, is this — that the words of a policy are to be construed in their plain, ordinary, and popular sense, unless they have generally, in tespect to the subject-matter, as by the known usage of (•) 4 East, 130. (I) 5 D. &' II. 397; 3 B.... | |
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... the subject-matter, as by the known usage of trade or the like, acquired a peculiar sense distinct from the popular sense of the same words... 
