Legal Definition and Related Resources of Meaning

acceptation
connotation
content
definition
denotation
drift
explanation
idea
import
interpretation
purport
semantics
semasiology
sense
sententia
significance
significatio
signification
substance
tenor
text
vis
Associated Concepts: plain meaning
secondary meaningforeign phrases: Primo excutienda est verbi vis
ne sermonis vitio obstruatur oratio
sive lex sine argumentis
The force of a word should be ascertained in the beginning
lest the sentence be destroyed by the fault of expression
or the law be without reason
Sensus verborum est anima legis
The meaning of words is the spirit of the law
In testamentis ratio tacita non debet considerari
sed verba solum spectari debent; adeoper divinationem mentis a verbis recedere durum est
In wills an unexpressed intention ought not to be considered
but the words alone ought to be regarded; for it is difficult to recede from the words by guessing at their intention

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