Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech, or the expression of ideas by written characters. The letter, or grammatical import, of a document or instrument, as distiu-guished from its spirit; as “the language of the statute.” See Behling v. Btate, 110 Ga. 754, 36 8. E. 85; Steveuson v. State, 90 Ga. 456, 16 S. E. 95; Cavan v. Brooklyn (City Ct. Brook.) 5 N. I. Supp. 759
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
