 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 964 pages
...insurance, viz. that it is to be construed according to its sense and meaning as collected in the first place from the terms used in it. which terms are themselves...popular sense, unless they have generally in respect of the subject-matter, as by the known usage of trade or the like, acquired a peculiar sense distinct... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 688 pages
...— namely, that it is to be construed according to its sense and meaning as collected in the first place from the terms used in it, which terms are themselves...popular sense, unless they have generally in respect of the subject-matter, as by the known usage of trade or the like, acquired a peculiar sense distinct... | |
 | Law - 1891 - 286 pages
...adopted ; that is, an agreement shall be construed according to its sense and meaning, as collected from the terms used in it, which terms are themselves...sense, unless they have, generally, in respect to the subject matter, as by the known usage of trade or the like, acquired a particular sense, distinct from... | |
 | Kenneth Reid, Reinhard Zimmermann (jurist) - Law - 2000 - 846 pages
...— viz. that it is to be construed according to its sense and meaning, as collected, in the first place, from the terms used in it, which terms are...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... | |
 | Law - 1885 - 980 pages
...quoted by this court, with approval, from Mr. Grcenleaf: " 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... | |
 | Missouri. Courts of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1921 - 820 pages
...differently the rule may be said to be that the nontechnical 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... | |
 | Law - 1885 - 1048 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...have generally, in respect to the subject-matter, us by the known usages of trade or the like, acquired a peculiar sense distinct from the popular sense... | |
 | Courtney Stanhope Kenny - Contracts - 1922 - 544 pages
...according to its sense and meaning, as collected in the first place from the terms used in it. These terms are themselves to be understood in their plain,...popular sense: unless they have generally in respect of the subject matter, as by the known usage of trade or the like, acquired a peculiar sense, distinct... | |
 | 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 - 1884 - 768 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, or their meaning is modified by the usage of trade. 1 Greenl.... | |
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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 ; or unless the context evidently points out that they must in the particular instance, and in order to effectuate the immediate... 
