From the bowels. From the vital part, the very essence of the thlng. 10 Coke, 24b; Homer v. Shelton, 2 Metc. (Mass.) 213. Ex viscerlbus verborum, from the mere words and nothlng else. 1 Story, EQ. Jur. § 980; Fisher ▼. Fields, 10 Johns. (N. Y.) 495
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
