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homogeneous entities so that they can be applied. If allowed
any grace or life such as is naturally theirs, they would not
serve their practical, applied function.
I have shown that the theory I offer you is based on a
natural virtue in words themselves. Let me state this
theory of interpretation dogmatically before I turn the
coin over to show that it conforms with the actual
practices of draftsmanship.
Words in legal documents—I am not talking about
anything else—are simply delegations to others of
authority to apply them to particular things or occasions.
The only meaning of the word meaning, as I am using it, is
an application to the particular. And the more imprecise
the words are, the greater is the delegation, simply
because then they can be applied or not to more