Diction Aet

See Definition; Word. No meaning of a word, which has received a construction by law or uniform custom, can be adopted from the dictionaries in conflict with that construction. And where a word, as used, is reconcilable with law or established custom, a different meaning cannot be given to it upon the authority of a lexicographer.* The dictionary clause of a statute is the section which defines what persons, places, things, etc., shall be included within the terms of the statute.^