Glossary : contemporaneous exposition
Definition 1
The construction of a law, made shortly
after its enactment, when the reasons for its passage were then fresh in
the minds of the judges, is considered as of great weight: contemporanea
expositio est optima et fortissima in lege. 1 Cranch, 299.
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