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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