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A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

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Sense; meaning; reason; understanding. the sense of the words; — est anima legis: is the soul of the law; — ex causa dicendi mones semper accipiendi sunt secundnm the sense of words is to be taken from them, and discourses are always to be subject-matter.