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91Verba generalia restringuntur ad habilitatem rei vel aptitudinem personae — (Civil law.) General words should be confined to the character of the thing or the aptitude of the person …
92Verba generalia restringuntur ad habilitatem rei vel personae — General words should be confined or restricted to the character of the thing or the person. See Broom s Legal Maxims 646 …
93Verba illata (relata) inesse videntur — Words which are referred to are deemed to be included …
94Verba in differenti materia per prius, non per posterius, intelligenda sunt — (Civil law.) Words concerning a different matter are to be understood by the matter preceding, and not by that following …
95Verba intelligenda sunt in casu possibili — (Civil law,) Words are to be understood as referring to a possible case …
96Verba intentioni debent inservire — Language ought to serve to express the intent. From this maxim of the law, it follows that the construction of language must be reasonable and agreeable to common understanding. Edgerly v Barker, 66 NH 434, 31 A 900 …
97Verba intentioni, et non e contra, debent inservire — Words ought to serve intention, and not the contrary …
98Verba ita sunt intelligenda, ut res magis valeat quam pereat — Words should be so understood that the thing should have effect rather than be null …
99Verba mere aequivoca, si per communem usum loquendi in intellectu certo sumuntur, talis intellectus praeferendus est — (Civil law.) The words being merely equivocal, if by common usage of speech they take a certain meaning, such meaning is to be preferred …
100Verba posteriora propter certitudinem addita, ad priora quae certitudine indigent, sunt referenda — Subsequent words which are added for the sake of certainty ought to be referred to prior ones lacking in certainty. See Broom s Legal Maxims 586 …