 | James Allan Park - Bottomry and respondentia - 1817 - 848 pages
...sense and meaning, as collected in thejirst place from the terms used in it, which terms are themselves 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... | |
 | Samuel Comyn - Contracts - 1824 - 680 pages
...and equity, in the 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 in it, which terms are themselves to be understood in their plain, ordinary, and popular sense, unless they have generally,... | |
 | 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 sense, unless they have generally in respect of the subjectmatter, as by the known usage of trade, or the like, acquired a sense distinct from the... | |
 | Thomas Starkie - Evidence (Law) - 1826 - 708 pages
...to all other instruments 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... | |
 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - Law reports, digests, etc - 1882 - 638 pages
...other instruments, applies equally to a policy of assurance, viz., that it is to be construed according to its sense and meaning as collected in the first...understood in their plain, ordinary and popular sense. Selwyn's NP 889 ; Robertson v. French, 4 East 135 ; Hunter v. LeatJiey, 10 B. & C. 871. All conditions,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1830 - 1076 pages
...down by Lord Ellenborough in Robertson v. French(t), that they are to be construed according to their sense and meaning, as collected in the first place from the terms used in them, which terms are themselves to be understood in their plain, ordinary, and popular sense ; unless... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Bayly Moore, Joseph Payne - Law reports, digests, etc - 1832 - 874 pages
...Lord Ellenborough in Robertson v. French (a), viz. that they are to be construed according to their sense and meaning, as collected, in the first place, from the terms used in them, which terms are themselves to be understood in their plain, ordinary, and popular sense, unless... | |
 | George Beaumont - Fire insurance - 1833 - 134 pages
...are to be 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,... | |
 | David Hughes - Booksellers' catalogs - 1833 - 520 pages
...instruments have been declared to be applicable to a policy ; viz. that (a) " it is to be construed according to its sense and meaning as collected in the first place from the terras used in it, which terms are themselves to be understood in their plain, ordinary, and popular... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, James Manning, Archer Ryland, Joseph A. Harris, William Botsford - Law reports, digests, etc - 1837 - 826 pages
...equally to this instrument of a policy of 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 to be understood in their plain, ordinary, and popular sense, unless they have generally,... | |
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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... 
