Said

Before mentioned. A word of reference to what has been already spoken of or specified. 172 111. 465. In contracts and pleadings it is usual and proper, when it is desired to speak of a person or thing before mentioned, to designate them by the term "said" or "aforesaid," or by some similar term; otherwise the latter description will be ill for want of certainty. 2 Lev. 207; Comyn, Dig. "Pleader" (C 18); Gould, PI. c. 3, § 63. If there is a question as to which of the antecedent things or propositions specified is referred to, it is generally, 172 111. 465, but not necessarily, held to be the last. 10 Ind. 372.- SAIGA (Law Lat.)

In old European law. A German coin of the value of a penny, or of three pence. L. Alaman. tit. 6, se 2; L. Boior. tit. 8, c. 2, § 3; Spelman.

Before mentioned. In contracts and pleadings it is usual and proper, when it is desired to speak of a person or thing before mentioned, to designate them by the term said or aforesaid, or by some similar term; otherwise the latter description will be ill for want of certainty. Com. Dig. Pleader (C 18); Gould, PI. § 63. Adopted in Brown v. State, 28 Tex. App. 379, 13 S. W. 150. The reference of the word said is to be determined, in any given case, by the sense. Same refers to the next antecedent, but in the interpretation of a written instrument, the word said does so only when the plain meaning requires it; 2 Kent 555; Wilkinson v. State, 10 Ind. 373.

Is constantly used in legal papers, with the same force as, and ap- S. The word said, in an entry, is a relative^ w term, and refers to its next antecedent./'^ Ellis V. Horine, 1 A. K. Marsh 417. The rule that the word " said " will be referred to the next antecedent only when the plain meaning requires it, applies to the construction of an indictment. Wilkinson w. State, 10 Ind. 372.