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Rather than risk an answer which might be wrong and excite a storm of abuse from the master, he would sit stupidly silent, and when it came towards his turn to stand up and construe he grew sick and white with apprehension.

There was a self-possessed young lady connected with these accessories; and Pitcher was there to construe her.

I was fully old enough now, to be apprenticed to Joe; and when Joe sat with the poker on his knees thoughtfully raking out the ashes between the lower bars, my sister would so distinctly construe that innocent action into opposition on his part, that she would dive at him, take the poker out of his hands, shake him, and put it away.

The court noted that its decision should not be understood as a definitive pronouncement on the best or most reasonable reading of the term "resident," but that its interpretation of this term reflects its adherence to Wyoming law's command for courts to construe ambiguities in insurance policies strictly in favor of coverage.

"As a result, we are bound, under the law of the circuit doctrine, to construe the operative language of the Jury Plan that is at issue in this case in the same manner that we construed the exact same language in In re Globe.

For example, if the inventor specifically defined the term "thin" in the patent to mean one to two millimetres, then a judge would likely construe the term to have this particular thickness.

This casebook is intended for a first-year course that teaches how federal statutory and regulatory law is made and how judges and administrative interpreters construe these legal materials.

This fundamental issue in how our courts resolve patent disputes involves a difficult line-drawing exercise between two steps: First, the court must construe the legal scope of patent claims as a matter of law, and, second, the fact finder must apply the construed claims to the accused instrumentality to determine infringement as a question of fact.

He can construe noumenalism ontologically and confront Smith and Stoljar's charge.

"We are persuaded that state law does not reverse-preempt federal law in the present case for two related but distinct reasons: (1) Congress did not intend to include a treaty within the scope of an 'Act of Congress' when it used those words in the MFA and (2) in this case, it is when we construe a treaty--specifically, the Convention, rather than the Convention Act--to determine the parties' respective rights and obligations, that the state law at issue is superseded." [718].