 | William Pugsley - 1880 - 716 pages
...applies to other instruments applies equally to a policy of insurance, viz : it is to be construed according to its sense and meaning as collected in the first place from the terms used in 1879. MARITIME BANK v. GUARDIAN Asa. Co. it, which tonns themselves are to be understood in their plain.... | |
 | James Thomas Foard - Freight and freightage - 1880 - 678 pages
...Thus Lord Ellenborough says of mercantile contracts — " These are to be construed according to their sense and meaning as collected in the first place from the terms employed in them, which terms are themselves to be understood in their plain, ordinary, and popular... | |
 | Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Abram Daniel Smith, Philip Loring Spooner, Obadiah Milton Conover, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frederick C. Seibold - Law reports, digests, etc - 1882 - 764 pages
...policy? We agree with LORD ELLENBOROUGH, CJ, in the case cited, that the policy " is to be construed according to its sense and meaning, as collected in...understood in their plain, ordinary and popular sense," etc. Robertson v. French, 4 East, 135. Spensley vs. The Lancashire Ina. Co. In Kenniston v. Ins. Co.,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1883 - 980 pages
...the same question in relation to beer, might smile with equal reason. Words in contracts and laws are to be understood in their plain, ordinary, and popular sense, unless they are technical, local, or provincial, >» their meaning is modified by the usage of trade. 1 Oreenl.... | |
 | Herbert Broom, Herbert Francis Manisty, Charles Francis Cagney - Legal maxims - 1884 - 1078 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,...subject-matter, — as by the known usage of trade, or (c) Plimpton v. Maleolmson, 3Ch. (<2) Clark v. Adit, 2 App. Cases, Div. 531; 45 LJ Ch. 505; Morgan... | |
 | Benjamin Russell - 1885 - 606 pages
...contracts and deeds generally. A policy of insurance must, like all written instruments, be construed " according to its sense and meaning as collected in...themselves to be understood in their plain ordinary popular sense, unless they have generally in respect to the subject matter, as by the known usage of... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 688 pages
...quoted by this court with approval from Mr. Greenleaf : " The terms of every written instrument are to be understood in their plain, ordinary, and popular...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... | |
 | Charles McArthur - Marine insurance - 1885 - 390 pages
...to all 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... | |
 | Horace Gay Wood - Fire insurance - 1886 - 770 pages
...oilier instruments, applies equally to this, * * viz., that it ie to be construed according to ill sense and meaning, as collected, in the first place, from the terms used in it, ntiick terme are themselves to be understood in their plain, ordinary and popular «we, unie«« they... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 972 pages
...unambiguous, parol evidence will not be admitted to contradict, vary, or to explain them. Their terms are to be understood in their plain, ordinary, and popular...the subject-matter, as by the known usage of trade, acquired a peculiar sense, distinct from the popular sense, rendering it necessary to resort to extrinsic... | |
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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... 
