| Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 952 pages
...matter may be submitted to the jury. In 1 Greenleaf on Evidence, Sec. 278, the rule is thus stated : "The terms of every written instrument are to be understood in their plain, ordinary, and popular sense, unloss they have generally, in respect to the subjectmatter, as by the known usage of trade, or the... | |
| William Selwyn - Nisi prius - 1812 - 732 pages
...accorcjing to its 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 to the subject matter, as by the known usage of trade or the like,... | |
| Wendell Phillips - Insurance law - 1823 - 572 pages
...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 to the subject matter, as by the known usage of trade, or the like,... | |
| Thomas Starkie - Evidence (Law) - 1826 - 708 pages
...according to its sense and meaning, as collected, in the first place, from the terms used in it, which are to be understood in their plain, ordinary and popular sense, unless they have generally in respect of the subject, as by the known usage of trade, or the like, acquired... | |
| George Beaumont - Fire insurance - 1833 - 134 pages
...construed according to their sense and meaning as collected from the terms used in them, which terms are to be understood in their plain, ordinary and popular sense, unless by the known use of trade they have acquired a peculiar meaning, or unless the context points out that, to eifect... | |
| Law - 1837 - 512 pages
...sense and meaning, as collected in the first place from the terms used in it; which terms 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,... | |
| Samuel March Phillipps - Evidence (Law) - 1838 - 1358 pages
...words. incnt, is thus laid down by Lord Ellenborough, in the case of Robertson v. French. (1) "Terms are to be understood in their plain, ordinary, and popular sense, unless they have generally in respect to the subject matter, or by the known usage of trade or the like, acquired... | |
| Patrick Brady Leigh - Nisi prius - 1838 - 774 pages
...according to its 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 to the subject matter, as by the known usage of trade or the like,... | |
| Archibald John Stephens - Arbitration and award - 1842 - 1072 pages
...extrinsic evidence ; ambiguitas patens is, where the defect appears upon the face of the deed. Terms are to be understood in their plain, ordinary, and popular sense, unless they have generally, in respect to the subject-matter, or by the known usage of trade, or the like,... | |
| George Duckett Barber - Fire insurance - 1846 - 134 pages
...construed according to their sense and meaning as collected from the terms used in them, which terms are to be understood in their plain, ordinary and popular sense, unless by the known use of trade they have acquired a peculiar meaning, or unless the context point out that, to effect... | |
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