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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Usually a word of limitation, unless there are other controlling expressions in the connection, showing that a different meaning is intended. 12 IlL 304., When time is given to file a pleading until a day named, "until" is ordinarily exclusive.

126 Iowa 669.

The word may, either in a contract or a law, have an exclusive or an inclusive meaning according to the subject to which it is applied, the nature of the transaction which it specifies, and the connection in which it is used.

12 111. 304; 87 111. 347.