Equivocal
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
Having a double sense
In the construction of contracts, it is a general rale that when an expression may be taken in two senses, that shall be preferred which gives it effect See Construction; Interpretation. EQUULEUS (Lat.). A kind of rack for extorting confessions. Encyc. Lond.