Said
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
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In contracts and pleadings it is usual and proper, when it is desired to speak of a person or thing before mentioned, to designate them by the term said or aforesaid, or by some similar term; otherwise the latter description will be ill for want of certainty.
Com. Dig. Pleader (C 18); Gould, PI. § 63. Adopted in Brown v. State, 28 Tex. App. 379, 13 S. W. 150.
The reference of the word said is to be determined, in any given case, by the sense. Same refers to the next antecedent, but in the interpretation of a written instrument, the word said does so only when the plain meaning requires it; 2 Kent 555; Wilkinson v. State, 10 Ind. 373.