Practical Construction
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Of a Statute. One determined by long-established procedure under it, to which deference will be paid by the courts in interpreting the statute, if possible, without doing violence to its terms.
16 Ohio, 559; 49 Mo. 404; 93 111. 191.
Of a Contract. That given to the contract by the parties, and under which they acted in performing it. Such an interpretation will be effectuated by the court, if possible.
76 U. S. 50; 80 U. S. 608; 41 Minn. 308; 41 Neb. 56; 67 Vt. 1.