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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

When referring to different things before expressed, “this” refers to the thing last mentioned, and “that” to the tiling first mentioned.

Russell v. Kennedy, 66 Pa. 251.

It is a simple word of relation and its ordinary grammatical meaning will not be extended so as to include something else than that to which it relates.

14 Q. B. D. 720.