 | William Selwyn - Nisi prius - 1812 - 732 pages
...equally to a policy of assurance1, viz. that it is to be construed 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... | |
 | Samuel March Phillipps - Evidence (Law) - 1815 - 600 pages
...be understood in their plain, ordinary, and proper sense, unless they have generally, in respect to the subject-matter, as by the known usage of trade...peculiar sense distinct from the popular sense of the words; or unless the context evidently points out, that they must in the particular instance, and in... | |
 | James Allan Park - Bottomry and respondentia - 1817 - 848 pages
...insurance, namely, that it is to be construed according to its sense and meaning, as collected in thejirst place from the terms used in it, which terms are themselves...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... | |
 | William Selwyn - Nisi prius - 1817 - 776 pages
...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 rf-spect to the subject matter, as by the known usage of trade or the like, acquired a peculiar sense... | |
 | Sir John Comyns - Digests, etc - 1822 - 652 pages
...understood in their plain, ordinal1)', and proper sense, unless they nave generally, in respect to the subjectmatter, as by the known usage of trade...peculiar sense, distinct from the popular sense of the words ; or unless the context evidently points out, that they must, in the particular instance, and... | |
 | Wendell Phillips - Insurance law - 1823 - 572 pages
...instruments, applies equally to this, viz. that it is to be construed 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... | |
 | Samuel Comyn - Contracts - 1824 - 680 pages
...construction of a contract or agreement is, that it shall be construed according to its sense and meaning, as collected, in the first place, from the terms used...popular sense, unless they have generally, in respect to the subject matter, as by die known usage of trade, or the like, acquired a peculiar sense, distinct... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Richard Vaughan Barnewall, Sir Cresswell Cresswell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1825 - 974 pages
...Demerara. The terms of a policy are, to use the language of Lord Ettenbaraugh in Robertson v. French (a), to be understood in their plain, ordinary, and popular...the known usage of trade, or the like, acquired a sense distinct from the popular sense of the same words, or unless the context evidently shews that... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench - Law reports, digests, etc - 1825 - 862 pages
...of a policy are, in the language of Lord Ellenborough in JRobertson v. French (c), to be construed 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... | |
 | Thomas Starkie - Evidence (Law) - 1826 - 708 pages
...applied also to a policy of insurance, that is, to be construed 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... | |
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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... 
