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Verba Quantumvis Generalia

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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

AD aptitudinem restringuntur, etiamsl nullam e.i to harmonize with the subject matter), though they would bear no other restriction. Spiegelius. VERBA RELATA HOC MAXIME OPERantur per referentfam ut in eis inesse v<dentur. Words to which reference is made in an instrument have the same effect and operation as if they were inserted in the clause referring to them. Co. Litt. 359; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 599; 14 East, 568. VERBA SECUNDUM MATERIAM SUBjectam Intelligi nemo est qui nescit. There is no one who is -ignorant that words should be understood according to the subject matter. Galv. Lex. VERBA SEMPER ACCIPIENDA SUNT IN mitiorl sensu. Words are always to be taken in their milder sense. 4 Coke, 17. VERBA STRICTAE SIGNIFICATIONIS ad latam extendi possunt, si subsit ratio. Words of a strict signification can be given a wide signification if reason require. Calv. Lex.; Spiegelius.