particulars. This is the only important feature of words in 
     legal draftsmanship or interpretation.
          They mean, therefore, not what their author 
     intended them to mean, or even what meaning he 
     intended, or expected, reasonably or not, others to give 
     them. They mean, in the first instance, what the person 
     to whom they are addressed makes them mean. Their 
     meaning is whatever occasion or thing he may apply them 
     to or what in some cases he may only propose to apply 
     them to. The meaning of words in legal documents is to 
     be sought, not in their author or authors, the parties to a 
     contract, the testator, or the legislature, but in the acts 
     or the behavior with which the person addressed 
     undertakes to match them. This is the beginning of their 
     meaning.
          In the second instance, but only secondarily, a legal