 | William Selwyn - Nisi prius - 1812 - 1250 pages
...instruments, applies equally to a policy of assurance1, viz. that it is to be construed accorcjing 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 respect... | |
 | William Selwyn - Nisi prius - 1817 - 1313 pages
...to all other instruments, applies equally to a policy ot assurance?, viz. that it is to be construed according to its sense and meaning, as collected in...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... | |
 | Wendell Phillips - Insurance law - 1823 - 550 pages
...applies to other instruments, applies equally to this, viz. that it is to be construed according to the 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 respect... | |
 | Samuel Comyn - Contracts - 1824 - 654 pages
...courts of law and equity, in the construction of a contract or agreement is, that it shall be construed according to its sense and meaning, as collected,...sense, unless they have generally, in respect to the subject matter, as by die known usage of trade, or the like, acquired a peculiar sense, distinct from... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Richard Vaughan Barnewall, Sir Cresswell Cresswell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1825
...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... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, James Dowling, Archer Ryland - Law reports, digests, etc - 1825
...of a policy are, in the language of Lord Ellenborough in JRobertson v. French (c), to be construed 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... | |
 | Thomas Starkie - Evidence (Law) - 1826
...which applied to all other instruments applied also to a policy of insurance, that is, to be construed according to its sense and meaning, as collected,...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... | |
 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - Law reports, digests, etc - 1882
...to all other instruments, applies equally to a policy of assurance, viz., that it is to be construed according to its sense and meaning as collected in...first place from the terms used in it, which terms are to be understood in their plain, ordinary and popular sense. Selwyn's NP 889 ; Robertson v. French,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1830
...down by Lord Ellenborough in Robertson v. French(t), that they are to be construed according to their sense and 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... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Bayly Moore, Joseph Payne - Law reports, digests, etc - 1832
...Lord Ellenborough in Robertson v. French (a), viz. that they are to be construed according to their sense and 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... | |
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... as by the known usage of trade, or the like, acquired a peculiar sense, distinct from the popular sense of the same words... 
