construction
Defined in 8 dictionaries — Case Law, U.S. Code, Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Burrill (1850)
Definitions from Case Law
From 229 U.S. 187 - Swigart v. Baker · 1913Most cited · 76 citing opinions
The phrase is not expressly defined, and being general in its terms, is not necessarily limited to building, but may include the preservation and maintenance of what has been built.
United States Code
10 U.S.C. § 2871 — in this subchapter (2 versions over time)
The term "construction" means the construction of housing units and ancillary supporting facilities or the improvement or rehabilitation of existing units or ancillary supporting facilities.
14 U.S.C. § 677 — in this section
The term “construction” includes the construction, procurement, development, conversion, or extension of any facility.
14 U.S.C. § 680 — in this chapter (2 versions over time)
The term “construction” means building, renovating, or improving military family housing and military unaccompanied housing.
14 U.S.C. § 913 — in this section
The term "construction" includes the construction, procurement, development, conversion, or extension of any facility.
14 U.S.C. § 2941 — in this chapter
The term "construction" means building, renovating, or improving military family housing and military unaccompanied housing.
20 U.S.C. § 4351 — as used in this chapter
The term “construction” includes construction and initial equipment of new buildings, and expansion, remodeling, and alteration of existing buildings and equipment therein, including architect's services, but excluding off-site improvements.
20 U.S.C. § 7713 — for purposes of this subchapter
The term “construction” means—
(A) the preparation of drawings and specifications for school facilities;
(B) erecting, building, acquiring, altering, remodeling, repairing, or extending school facilities;
(C) inspecting and supervising the construction of school facilities; and
(D) debt service for such activities.
23 U.S.C. § 101 — in this title (10 versions over time)
The term “construction” means the supervising, inspecting, actual building, and incurrence of all costs incidental to the construction or reconstruction of a highway or any project eligible for assistance under this title, including bond costs and other costs relating to the issuance in accordance with section 122 of bonds or other debt financing instruments and costs incurred by the State in performing Federal-aid project related audits that directly benefit the Federal-aid highway program. Such term includes—
(A) preliminary engineering, engineering, and design-related services directly relating to the construction of a highway project, including engineering, design, project development and management, construction project management and inspection, surveying, assessing resilience, mapping (including the establishment of temporary and permanent geodetic control in accordance with specifications of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), and architectural-related services;
(B) reconstruction, resurfacing, restoration, rehabilitation, and preservation;
(C) acquisition of rights-of-way;
(D) relocation assistance, acquisition of replacement housing sites, and acquisition and rehabilitation, relocation, and construction of replacement housing;
(E) elimination of hazards of railway-highway grade crossings;
(F) elimination of roadside hazards;
(G) improvements that directly facilitate and control traffic flow, such as grade separation of intersections, widening of lanes, channelization of traffic, traffic control systems, and passenger loading and unloading areas;
(H) improvements that reduce the number of wildlife-vehicle collisions, such as wildlife crossing structures; and
(I) capital improvements that directly facilitate an effective vehicle weight enforcement program, such as scales (fixed and portable), scale pits, scale installation, and scale houses.
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
COURT OF. A court of equity or of common law, as the case may be, is called the "court of construction" with regard to wills, as opposed to the "court of probate," whose duty is to decide whether an instrument be a -voll at all. Now, the court of probate may decide that a given instrument is a will, and yet the court of construction may decide that it has no operation, by reason of perpetuities, illegality, uncertainty, etc. Wharton.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
The process or the art, of determining the sense, real meaning or proper explanation of obscure or ambiguous terms or provisions in a statute, written instrument or oral agreement or the application of such subject to the case In question, by reasoning in the light derived from extraneous connected circumstances or laws or writings bearing upon the same or a connected matter or by seeking and applying the probable aim and purpose of the provision. It is to be noted that this term is properly distinguished from interpretation, although the two are often used synonymously. In strictness, interpretation is limited to exploring the written text, while construction goes beyond and may call in the aid of extrinsic considerations, as above indicated. Strict and liberal construction. Strict construction is construction of a statute or other instrument according to its letter, which recognizes nothing that is not expressed, takes the language used in its exact and technical meaning, and admits no equitable considerations or implications. Paving Co., v. Watt, 51 La. Ann. 1345, 26 South. 70; Stanyan v. Peterborough, 69 N. H. 372, 46 Atl. 191. Liberal construction, on the other hand, expands the meaning of the statute to meet cases which are clearly within the spirit or reason of the law, or within the evil which it was designed to remedy, provided such an interpretation is not inconsistent with the language used; it resolves all reasonable doubts in favor of the applicability of the statute to the particular case. Black, Interp. Laws, 282; Lawrence v. McCalmont, 2 How. 449, 11 L. Ed. 326; In re Johnson's Estate, 98 Cal. 531, 33 Pac. 460, 21 L. In A. 380; Shorey v. Wyckoff, 1 Wash. T. 351.
— Construction, court of. A court of equity or of common law, as the case may bs, is calied the court of construction with regard to wills, as opposed to the court of probate, whose duty is to decide whether an instrument be a will at all. Now, the court of probate may decide that a given instrument is a will, and yet the court of construction may decide that it has no operation, by reason of perpetuities, illegality, uncertainty, etc. Wharton.
— Equitable construction. A construction of a law, rule, or remedy which has regard more to the equities of the particular transaction or state of affairs involved than to the strict application of the rule or remedy ; that is, a liberal and extensive construction, as opposed to a literal and restrictive. Smiley v. Sampson, 1 Neb. 91.
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
A putting together; a putting an instrument; an arrangement or so as to extract, by a process of inference, drawing of conclusions from what is given subjects beyond, the words used, — spirit, though not within the letter, of the tation, v. Liberal; Strict.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
The process, or the art, of determining the sense, real meaning, or proper explanation of obscure or ambiguous terms or provisions in a statute, written instrument, or oral agreement, or the application of such subject to the case in question, by reasoning in the light derived from extraneous connected circumstances or laws or writings bearing upon the same or a connected matter, or by seeking and applying the probable aim and purpose of the provision. It is to be noted that this term is properly distinguished from interpretation, although the two are often used synonymously. In strictness, interpretation is limited to exploring the written text, while construction goes beyond and may call in the aid of extrinsic considerations, as above indicated.
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
[Lat. constructio, from construere, to frame or put together.] Interpretation; explanation; the manner of understanding the arrangement of words or of understanding facts. Webster.