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Page 179 - Whether we are considering an agreement between parties, a statute, or a constitution, with a view to its interpretation, the thing we are to seek is the thought which it expresses. To ascertain this, the first resort in all cases is to the natural signification of the words employed, in the order of grammatical arrangement in which the framers of the instrument have placed them.
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| Title | Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Nevada: Reported by Judges of the Court During the Year ..., Volume 35 |
| Author | Nevada. Supreme Court |
| Publisher | E.I. Robinson, 1913 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Jul 5, 2007 |
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