Leakage

An allowance for loss by leaking. When bottles which have been filled and corked are found partly empty, while still whole, and the corks in their places, the deficiency, whether called ' ' ullage ' ' or " wantage " or by any other name, can only have arisen from leakage. = LEAKTINGr. The courts are said to lean or to have a leaning againsi a, particular construction or result, when some rule of policy or expediency directs them to presume in favor of another view or result.'