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Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech or the expression of ideas by written characters. The letter or grammatical import, of a document or instrument, as distinguished from its spirit; as "the language of the statute."

See Behling v. State, 110 Ga. 754, 36 S. E. 85 ; Stevenson v. State, 90 Ga. 456, 16 S. E. 95; Cavan v. Brooklyn (City Ct. Brook.) 5 N. Y. Supp. 759.