As Amended
SEC. 1-3-17. Gender, masculine to embrace the feminine.
Words in the masculine gender shall embrace a female as well as a male, unless a contrary intention may be manifest.
SOURCES: Codes, 1857, ch. 66, art. 7; 1871, Sec. 2936; 1880, Sec. 16; 1892, Sec. 1524; 1906, Sec. 1605; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 1372; 1930, Sec. 1396; 1942, Sec. 704.