As Amended
SEC. 1-3-65. Construction of terms generally.
All words and phrases contained in the statutes are used according to their common and ordinary acceptation and meaning; but technical words and phrases according to their technical meaning.
SOURCES: Codes, 1857, ch. 66, art. 1; 1871, Sec. 2930; 1880, Sec. 10; 1892, Sec. 1522; 1906, Sec. 1603; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 1370; 1930, Sec. 1394; 1942, Sec. 702.