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*“In all human affairs, where absolute certainty is not at hand to point out the way, we must take probability for out guide. In most cases it is extremely probable that the parties have expressed themselves conformably to the established usage: and such probability ever affords a strong presumption, which cannot be overruled but by a still stronger presumption, to the contrary. Camden, in his history of Queen Elizabeth, gives us a treaty, in which it is expressly said that the treaty shall be precisely understood according to the force and appropriate signification of the terms.”—Vattel, b. ii. ch. xvii. sect. 271. On the same subject, Judge Blackstone says, that “words are generally to be understood in their usual and most known signification; not so much regarding the propriety of grammar, as their general and popular use.”—Introduct, to Com. ch. ii. p. 59.
0“In all human affairs, where absolute certainty is not at hand to point out the way, we must take probability for out guide. In most cases it is extremely probable that the parties have expressed themselves conformably to the established usage: and such probability ever affords a strong presumption, which cannot be overruled but by a still stronger presumption, to the contrary. Camden, in his history of Queen Elizabeth, gives us a treaty, in which it is expressly said that the treaty shall be precisely understood according to the force and appropriate signification of the terms.”—Vattel, b. ii. ch. xvii. sect. 271. On the same subject, Judge Blackstone says, that “words are generally to be understood in their usual and most known signification; not so much regarding the propriety of grammar, as their general and popular use.”—Introduct, to Com. ch. ii. p. 59.