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4485. LAW, Construing.—
The omission of a caution
which would have been right, does not
justify the doing what is wrong. Nor ought
it to be presumed that the Legislature meant
to use a phrase in an unjustifiable sense, if
by rules of construction it can be ever strained
to what is just.—
To Isaac McPherson. Washington ed. vi, 176.
(M.
1813)
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