Abbreviationum ille numerus et sensus accipiendus est, ut concessio non sit inanis

Dictionary: 
Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

In abbreviations, such number and sense is to be taken that the grant be not made void. 9 Coke, 48.

Author: 
Henry Campbell Black, M.A.
Publisher: 
West Publishing Company
Year Published: 
1910
Genre: 
Law Dictionary