 | Theophilus Parsons - Average - 1868 - 702 pages
...insurance is a full and clear statement of the law on this point, namely, that it must be construed according to its sense and meaning as collected in...popular sense, unless they have generally, in respect to tl:e subject-matter, as by the known usage of trade, or the like, acquired a peculiar sense distinct... | |
 | Insurance law - 1881 - 968 pages
...true rule by which the jury should be guided. The proposition is undoubtedly true that " words are to be understood in their plain, ordinary and popular sense, unless they have, in respect to the subject matter as by the known usage of the trade or the like, acquired a particular... | |
 | Thomas Sergeant, John Cole Lowber, Thomas M'Kean Pettit, George Sharswood, Henry Wharton, Samuel Dickson, James Parsons, William Wynne Wister - Law reports, digests, etc - 1872 - 556 pages
...instruments, applies equally to this instrument of a policy of insurance, viz. that it is to be construed according to its sense and meaning, as collected in...be understood in their plain, ordinary, and popular r*!.™ *sense, unless they have generally in respect to the subject- L matter, as by the known usage... | |
 | Iowa. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1872 - 660 pages
...and well established. But it is equally well settled that the terms of every written instrument are to be understood in their plain, ordinary, and popular...generally, in respect to the subject-matter, as by the knowledge of trade, or the like, acquired a peculiar sense distinct from the popular sense of the same... | |
 | Samuel Robinson Clarke - Insurance law - 1873 - 448 pages
...the same rule applies as in the case of other instruments, and it is to be construed according to the sense and meaning, as collected in the first place from the terms used, which terms are to be construed in their plain ordinary and popular sense, unless they have generally... | |
 | Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Abram Daniel Smith, Philip Loring Spooner, Obadiah Milton Conover, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frderick C. Seibold - Law reports, digests, etc - 1876 - 770 pages
...instruments, apply equally to this instrument or policy of insurance, namely, that it is to be construed according to its sense and meaning, as collected in...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... | |
 | Horace Gay Wood - Fire insurance - 1878 - 974 pages
...other instruments, applies equally to this, * * viz., that it is to be construed according to its sente and meaning, as collected, in the first place, from...have generally, in respect to the subject-matter, as Iry the kiifiun кладе of trade, or the like, acquired a peculiar sense, distinct from the pirpular... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1879 - 884 pages
...their sense and meaning as collected from the terms used, which terms are to be understood in their ordinary and popular sense, unless they have generally,...in respect to the subject-matter, as by the known usages of trade, or the like, acquired a peculiar sense distinct from the popular sense of the same... | |
 | 1880 - 682 pages
...East., 130-135, that applies to other instruments, 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 undei'stood in their plain, ordinary and popular sense, unless they have generally, in respect... | |
 | Benjamin Russell, M.A. - 1880 - 678 pages
...East., 130-135, that applies to other instruments, viz., that it is tobe 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... | |
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