Distinction between construction and interpretation, sec 627.

Classification of interpretation, sec 628.

Genuineness of text to be first established, sec 629.

Terms of art and business to be explained by parol, 630.

Meaning of terms of art or business is for jury; construction of meaning is for court, sec 631.

Accepted legal meaning of words to be received, sec 632.

Descriptive words are to yield to fixed natural objects, as well as to construction, sec 633.

Ciphers and abbreviations may be explained by experts, sec 634.

Sense intended at the time must be adopted, sec 635.

But not (unless in cases of mutual mistake) to override writing, sec 636.

Place in subordination to whose idioms a word is used, to determine meaning, sec 637.

In informal documents' plain meaning not to be postponed to technical, sec 638.

In memoranda and private letters allowance to be made for individual characteristics, sec 639.

Nomen generalissimum to be largely defined, sec 640.