Mallett v. Stevenson
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action of trespass tried to the jury upon the general issue with notice of the special matters of defense hereinafter stated.
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Action of trespass tried to the jury upon the general issue with notice of the special matters of defense hereinafter stated. The declaration alleged that the defendant, on the 19th day of August, 1854, with force and arms, broke and entered into and upon certain described premises of the plaintiff, and seized and carried away certain goods of the plaintiff specifically described in the declaration, including French brandy, gin and wines, and also including certain specified quantities of rum, cider-brandy and pale brandy, with- the vessels containing them. The plaintiff offered evidence to…
1Opinion of the CourtSanford, J.
We think the complaint and warrant upon which the defendant relied for his justification in making the *431original entry and seizure, authorized the taking of the liquors and casks specified under the videlicet only.
“ A videlicet,” says Lord Hobart, “ is a kind of interpreter. Her natural and proper use is, to particularize that that is before general.”—“ It may work a restriction when the former words are not express and special, but so indifferent as they may receive such restriction without apparent injury, though those former words by construction of law would have had a larger sense if the…
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