narrow construction

narrow construction
Rejecting the comprehensive sense, in favor of a narrow, contracted meaning, of words. Flaska v Dayton, 51 NM 13, 177 P2d 174. A technical construction. Clarke v Johnson, 199 Ga 163, 33 SE2d 425. See literal construction.

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