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Definition of Construes
1. construe [v] - See also: construe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Construes
Literary usage of Construes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"... rights to Leonard Dyson, which declaration the supreme court of Louisiana
construes as amounting to a quitclaim by John McLaughlin in favor of Dyson. ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law of Insurance, Fire, Life, Accident, Marine: Fire, Life by George Richards (1892)
"Who construes the Contract, Court or Jury.—This is an intensely practical question,
because a court 1 L. 1886, c. 488. 59 Am. Dec. 192. Cook v. ..."
3. A Portion of the Journal Kept by Thomas Raikes, Esq., from 1831 to 1847 by Thomas Raikes (1856)
"... e construes into an attempt to alter the succession. His misrepresentations
have not much effect upon the House, but the partisans of the Government ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Leases: With Forms and Precedents by Thomas Platt (1847)
"In cases of doubt as to the period of commencement, the court construes the
instrument most strongly against the lessor, and most beneficially for the ..."
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