 | Insurance law - 1887 - 1096 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... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 1216 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... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 1110 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... | |
 | Charles Greenstreet Addison - Contracts - 1888 - 864 pages
...Law, 1. 1, tit. 1, sect. 2, 463; Eyston v. Studd, Plowd. 465; xi. ; Shep. Touch. 88. 288 contract "are to be understood in their plain, ordinary, and popular...sense, unless they have generally, in respect to the interpretation as will give them operation consistent with the general purpose (Dceorah r. Kesselmeier,... | |
 | Horace Gay Wood - Landlord and tenant - 1888 - 858 pages
...93 ; Domat's Civil Law, 1. 1, Tit. 1, § 2, xi. ; Shep. Touch. 88. The terms of the contract " are to be understood in their plain, ordinary and popular sense, unless they have generally, in respect to tho subject-matter, as by tho known usage of trade or the like, acquired a peculiar sense distinct... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 626 pages
...that which is the plain, clear, and obvious result of the terms used therein, and these terms are. to be understood in their plain, ordinary, and popular sense, unless they have generally, in respect of the subject-matter, as by the known usages of trade or the like, acquired a particular sense distinct... | |
 | James Biggs Porter, William Feilden Craies - Accident insurance - 1889 - 438 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...popular sense, unless they have generally in respect to thesubject-matter,asby theknownusageof trade or the like, acquired a peculiar sense distinct from the... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1889 - 908 pages
...that words are generally taken in their ordinary sense, and the terms of every written instrument are to be understood in their plain, ordinary, and popular...have generally, in respect to the subject-matter, acquired a special sense. The word "mortgages" has only one signitication in this territory, popular... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1889 - 1110 pages
...also. They are to be construed according to the sense and meaning of the terms used. Their 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, acquired a peculiar sense distinct from the popular... | |
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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... 
