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Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law

non interpretatio est, quae omniiio recedit a litera, I. That is guessing, not interpretation, which altogether departs from the letter.