Construe
Defined in 4 dictionaries — Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Stimson (1881)
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
To put together strument; to ascertain rangement and inference. Consuetudiiiarius, I. I. ing the rites and form monasteries. Consuetudinary law. from a remote antiquity. Consuetudines, I. In Assisa Forestae: the dines feudorum: the Consnetndinibus et
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
To put tegether; to arrange or marshal the words of an instrument. To ascertain the meaning of language by a process of arrangement and inference,
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
To explain stronger word than ligible. Consuetude, pi. practice. Consuetudinibus tude debet esse tur: a custom should held as naught. another law. Consuetude Custom is the best oerta causa ratienabili gem: an established supersedes the common est observanda: the observed. Consuetude plius induci: a custom Conte,/r. A statement, we count, we declare. Contemporanea expesitio poraneous exposition is