 ... are 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 the popular sense of the same words...  The Southwestern Reporter - Page 2621905Full view - About this book
 | William Selwyn - Nisi prius - 1812 - 732 pages
...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 to the subject matter, as by the known usage of trade or the like,... | |
 | Wendell Phillips - Insurance law - 1823 - 572 pages
...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 to the subject matter, as by the known usage of trade, or the like,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Law - 1837 - 512 pages
...sense and meaning, as collected in the first place from the terms used in it; which terms themselves are 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,... | |
 | Samuel March Phillipps - Evidence (Law) - 1838 - 1358 pages
...words. incnt, is thus laid down by Lord Ellenborough, in the case of Robertson v. French. (1) "Terms are to be understood in their plain, ordinary, and popular sense, unless they have generally in respect to the subject matter, or by the known usage of trade or the like, acquired... | |
 | Patrick Brady Leigh - Nisi prius - 1838 - 774 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 respect to the subject matter, as by the known usage of trade or the like,... | |
 | Archibald John Stephens - Arbitration and award - 1842 - 1072 pages
...extrinsic evidence ; ambiguitas patens is, where the defect appears upon the face of the deed. Terms are to be understood in their plain, ordinary, and popular sense, unless they have generally, in respect to the subject-matter, or by the known usage of trade, or the like,... | |
 | George Duckett Barber - Fire insurance - 1846 - 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 point out that,... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1889 - 936 pages
...Overstreet, 4 Mon. 547, the word ' money ' was held to mean paper currency. . . . Words in contracts and laws are to be understood in their plain, ordinary and popular sense, unless they are technical, local or provincial, or their meaning is modified by the usage of trade. 1 Greenl.... | |
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