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1738. CONSTRUCTION OF INSTRUMENTS.—
When an instrument admits two
constructions, the one safe, the other dangerous,
the one precise, the other indefinite, I
prefer that which is safe and precise.—
To Wilson C. Nicholas. Washington ed. iv, 506.
Ford ed., viii, 247.
(M.
1803)
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