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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.