What is the definition of a family word?
Alberta, Canada
The following excerpt is from Calgary (City) v. Doll, 1978 CanLII 755 (AB QB):
Keeping this in mind, we then turn to various definitions of “family”. “It is a popular expression and is not technical and it can, without any difficulty, be controlled by its context and is, in itself, a word of most flexible description”: Green v. Marsden (1853), 1 W.R. 511 at 513, 1 Drewry 646, 61 E.R. 598, per Kindersley V.-C.
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