Common Intent
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The natural sense given to words. It is the rule that when words are used which will bear a natural sense and an artificial one, or one to be made out by argument and inference, the natural sense shall prevail. It is simply a rule of construction, and not of addition. Conimon intent cannot add to a sentence words which have been omitted.
2 H. Bl. 530.
In pleading, certainty is required; but certainty to a common intent is sufficient, — ^that is, what, upon a reasonable construction, may be called certain, without recurring to possible facts.
Co. Litt. 203a; Doug. 163.
See "'Certainty."
See 'Certainty.