Is there any difference between the meaning of "plain" and its meaning?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Pearson v. Adams, 1913 CanLII 16 (ON CA):
There is no evidence, as there might have been (see the limitations thereof per Tindal, C.J., in Shore v. Wilson (1842), 9 Cl. & F. 355, at p. 565), that these words, when used in 1888, had any different sense from the strict, plain, common meaning of the words themselves.
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