What is AND? Definition of AND in Black's Law Dictionary
A conjunction connecting words or phrases expressing the idea that the latter is to be added to or taken along with the first. Grand Trunk Western Ry. Co. v. Thrift Co., 68 Ind.App. 198, 116 N.E. 756, 759. Added to, together with, joined with, Business Men's Building & Loan Ass'n v. Tumulty, 13 N.J.Misc. 638, 180 A. 772. As well as. Porter v. Moores, 4 Heisk., Tenn., 16. Including. Finch v. Hunter, 148 Ark. 482, 230 S. W. 553, 554. "And also," Carter v. Keesling, 130 Va. 655, 108 S.E. 708, 713. Sometimes construed as "or." Land & Lake Ass'n v. Conklin, 182 App. Div. 546, 170 N.Y.S. 427, 428.
It expresses a general relation or connection, a participation or accompaniment in sequence, having no inherent meaning standing alone but deriving force from what comes before and after. In its conjunctive sense the word is used to conjoin words, clauses, or sentences, expressing the relation of addition or connection, and signifying that something is to follow in addition to that which proceeds and its use implies that the connected elements must be grammatically co-ordinate, as where the elements preceding and succeeding the use of the words refer to the same subject matter. While it is said that there Is no exact synonym of the word in English, it has been defined to mean "along with", "also", "and also", "as well as", "besides", "together with". Oliver v. Oliver, 286 Ky. 6, 149 S. W.2d 540, 542.
When expression "and/or" is used, that word may be taken as will best effect the purpose of the parties as gathered from the contract taken as a whole, or, in other words, as will best accord with the equity of the situation. Bobrow v. U. S. Casualty Co., 231 App.Div. 91, 246 N.Y.S. 363, 367.
The symbol "&c" indicates things of like character, with the things enumerated just before it. Fleck v. Harmstad, 304 Pa. 302, 155 A. 875, 878, 77 A.L.R. 874. It has been recognized as "sanctioned by age and good use." Brown v. State, 16 Tex.App. 245. And was constantly used by Lord Coke without a suggestion from any quarter that it is not English; Berry v. Osborn, 28 N.H. 279.
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