 | Law - 1882 - 624 pages
...understood in their plain, ordinary aud popular sense, unless they have, in respect to the subject matter, as by the known usage of trade or the like, acquired a particular souse, distinct from the popular sense of the same words. Where a word has both a popular... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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
...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...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... | |
 | Samuel Robinson Clarke - Insurance law - 1873 - 448 pages
...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 in respect to the subject matter, as by the known usages of trade acquired a peculiar sense distinct from the popular... | |
 | 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
...insurance, 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...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
...* * viz., that it is to be construed according to its sente and meaning, as collected, in the first place, from the terms used in it, which terms are...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... | |
 | James Thomas Foard - Freight and freightage - 1880 - 678 pages
...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...sense distinct from the popular sense of the same 1 Lord Clanricarde's Case, Hob., 277 ; Parkhurst v. Smith, Willes, 332, 333, per Willes, LCJ ; Knill... | |
 | William Pugsley - 1880 - 716 pages
...place from the terms used in 1879. MARITIME BANK v. GUARDIAN Asa. Co. it, which tonns 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, acquired a peculiar sense distinct from... | |
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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... 
