Verba Offendi Possunt

IMO AB eisi recedere licet, ut verba ad sanum intellectum reducantur. You may disagree with words, nay, you may recede from them, in order that they may be reduced to a sensible meaning. Calv. Lex. VERBA ORDINATIONIS QUANDO VERIficarl possunt in sua vera signiflcatlone, trahi ad extraneum intellectum non debent. When the words of an ordinance can be made true in their true signification, they ought not to be warped to a foreign meaning. Calv. Lex. VERBA POSTERIORA PROPTER CERTItudinem addita, ad priora quae certltudine Indigent, sunt referenda. Subsequent words added for the purpose of certainty are to be referred to preceding words in which certainty is wanting. Wingate, Max. 167; 6 Coke, 236. VERBA PRAESENTI (Lat.) Present words; words instantly operative. VERBA PRECARIA (Lat.)

In the civil law. Precatory words (g. v.), such as peto (I beg), rogo (I ask), volo (I will), cupio (I desire), etc. VERBA PRO RE ET SUBJECTA MATErla acclpi debent. Words should be received most favorably to the thing and the subject matter. Calv. Lex. VERBA QUAE ALIQUID OPERARI POSsunt non debent esse superflua. Words which can have any effect ought not to bia treated as surplusage. Calv. Lex.