Wills, Circuit Judge, (after stating the facts.) Where a word used in a statute has a definite meaning and the sense in .which it is used is clear the courts must give to such word its popular meaning as the Legislature is assumed to have said what they intended by the use of such word and there is nothing for the courts to construe. But, if a Avord has no definite or generally accepted popular meaning or in the connecti…
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