 | Utah (Ter.) - 1852 - 290 pages
...words importing the masculine gender only, may be extended to females. All words and phrases shall be construed according to the context, and the approved usage of the language; but technical words and phrases, and such others as may have acquired a peculiar and appropriate meaning... | |
 | California - 1872 - 698 pages
...the future, but exclude the past. 24. The word "will" includes codicils. 25. Words and phrases must be construed according / to the context and the approved usage of the language; / but technical words and phrases, and such others aa / may have acquired a peculiar and appropriate... | |
 | California - 1872 - 728 pages
...the authority. Words and Sh rases, ow construed. Certain terms defined. 13. "Words and phrases are construed according to the context and the approved usage of the language; but technical words and phrases, and such others as may have acquired a peculiar and appropriate meaning... | |
 | California - 1874 - 524 pages
...a writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. Sixteen — Words and phrases must be construed according to the context and the approved usage of the language; but technical words and phrases, and such others as may have acquired a peculiar and appropriate meaning... | |
 | California - 1874 - 712 pages
...the future, but exclude the past. 24. The word "will " includes codicils. 25. Words and phrases must be construed according to the context and the approved usage of the language; but technical words and phrases, and such others as may have acquired a peculiar and appropriate meaning... | |
 | California - 1874 - 870 pages
...of them, unless it is otherwise expressed in the Act giving the authority. 16. Words and phrases are construed according to the context and the approved usage of the language; but technical words and phrases, and such others as have acquired a peculiar and appropriate meaning... | |
 | California, Theodore Henry Hittell - 1876 - 986 pages
...summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. Technical words, etc. 16. Words and phrases must be construed according to the context and the approved usage of the language; but technical words and phrases, and such others as may have acquired a peculiar and appropriate meaning... | |
 | Utah. Supreme Court, Albert Hagan, John Augustine Marshall, John Maxcy Zane, James A. Williams, Joseph M. Tanner, George L. Nye, John Walcott Thompson, August B. Edler, Alonzo Blair Irvine, Harmel L. Pratt, William S. Dalton, H. Arnold Rich - 1881 - 678 pages
...promote justice." CL p. 564, § 1834. And the same code further says, that "words and phrases must be construed according to the context and the approved usage of the language." CL p. 567, § 1836, par. 23. If we were to construe the word " horse," in the statute, by its immediate... | |
 | Utah. Supreme Court, Albert Hagan, John Augustine Marshall, John Maxcy Zane, James A. Williams, Joseph M. Tanner, George L. Nye, John Walcott Thompson, August B. Edler, Alonzo Blair Irvine, Harmel L. Pratt, William S. Dalton, H. Arnold Rich - 1897 - 598 pages
..."maintained,'' as used in this section. Section 2996, Comp. Laws Utah 18S8, provides that "words and phrases are construed according to the context, and the approved usage of the language. * * * " Webster, in subdivision 4, defines the word "maintain" to mean "to bear the expense of; to... | |
 | Iowa. Supreme Court - 1879 - 770 pages
...of the import of the terms referred to. The Revision, § 29, provides that words and phrases shall be construed according to the context, and the approved usage of the language. We think that the words fronting upon and lying along a street, as employed in the statute under consideration,... | |
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... a writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings; 16. Words and phrases must be construed according to the context and the approved usage of the language... 
