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punctuation

construction. The act or method of placing points (q. v.) in a written or printed instrument.

2. By the word point is here understood all the points in grammar, as the comma, the semicolon, the colon, and the like.

3. All such instruments are to be construed without any regard to the punc-tuation; and in a case of doubt, they ought to be construed in such a manner that they may have some effect, rather than in one in which they would be nugatory. Vide Toull. liv. 3, t. 2, c. 5, n. 430; 4 T. R. 65; Barringt. on the Stat. 394, n. Vide article Points.

Source : Bouvier 1856

Language : English

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