Sentence examples for settled construction from inspiring English sources

This was a settled construction for the words.

The general rule is that, in the absence of a statute to the contrary, if a settled construction by the court of last resort of a state enacting a statute is relied upon to control the judgment of the court of another state in interpreting the statute, such settled construction must be pleaded and proved.

This is but another application of the familiar rule that, where one state adopts the laws of another, it is also presumed to adopt the known and settled construction of those laws by the courts of the state from which they are taken.

When once it became the settled construction of the constitution of Illinois that no act can be deemed a valid law unless, by the journals of the legislature, it appears to have been regularly passed by both houses, it became the duty of the courts to take judicial notice of the journal entries in that regard.

Rumors were spreading around Shanghai that Leo Investment had failed to settle construction payments and that the project was waiting for new investors.

In Lima, my father had settled on construction.

The lawsuit has not been settled, but construction can now go forward while the case works it way through the courts.

The dance floor dust has settled, but construction zone dust has begun.

Sanders and other officials hope that by the end of that year the expansion will have been approved, litigation over its financing plan settled and construction well underway.

He worked as a bus conductor and ladies' hairdresser before settling on construction as the most reliable pay packet.

This settled and natural construction of the operative statutory language is reflected in our cases.