From the expiration of .a policy means from the expiration of the time from which the policy was effected and not the time at which the risk is terminated by alienation; Sullivan v. Ins. Co., 2 Mass. 318. Six months from testator's death allowed a legatee to give security not to marry, are exclusive of that day ; 15 Ves. 248. Where an annuity is given, and from and after the payment thereof and subject thereto, the principal over, the gift over is subject to make up deficiency of income ; aliter if the gift over were from and after the annuitant's death, merely; L. R. 2 Ch. App. 644, reversing L, R. 4 Eq. 58. From time to time, as applied to the payment of expenses or damages caus ed by building a railroad ; L. R. 5 Ex. 6; or the appointment, by a married woman, of rents and profits; 1 Ves, Jr. 189 and note; 3 Bro. C. C. 340 ; 12 Ves. 501; do not require periodical payments or appointments, nor re strain the party from a sweeping discharge or disposition of the whole subject-matter at once. Prom time to time is not sufficient in a bail bond which under the statute should stipulate for appearance from term to term; Forbes y. State (Tex.) 25 S. W. 1072. From day to day, in reference to adjournments, usually means to the next day but, under a statute authorizing the adjournment of a sale from day to day, a sale is good if made, by adjournment to a day, certain, which did not immediately succeed the first ; Burns v. Lyon, 4 Watts .(Pa.) 363. From henceforth in a lease means from the delivery ; 5 Co. 1; so also does one from March 25th last past (the execution being March 25th) ; 4 B. & C. 272; or one from an impossible date (as February 30th), or no date, but if it has a sensible date, the word date in other parts of it means date, not delivery ; 4 B. & C. 908. Where authority is given to commissioners to build a bridge and then and from thence forth, the county to be liable, means only after the bridge is built ; 16 East 305.
Whenever they are used with respect to places it is said that "from," "to," and "at" are taken inclusively according to the sub ject-matter; Union Pac. It. Co. v. Hall, 91 U. S. 343, 23 L. Ed. 428 (fixing the terminus of a railroad under an act of congress). From an object to an object in a deed ex cludes the terminus referred to ; Bonney v. Morrill, 52 Me. 252 ; State v. Bushey, 84 Me. 459, 24 AU. 940. From place to place means from one place in a town to another in the same town; Com. v. Inhabitants of Cambridge, 7 Mass. 158 ; Com. v. Waters, 11 Gray (Mass.) 81. From a street means from
any part of it according to circumstances; City of Pittsburg v. Cluley, 74 Pa. 259. From a town is not always and indeed is seldom exclusive of the place named; it gen erally means from some indefinite place with in that town ; Chesapeake & 0. Canal Co. v. Key, 3 Cra. C. C. 599, 606, Fed. Cas. No. 2, 649. Authority in a railroad charter to con struct a railroad from a city to another point gives power to construct the road from any point within the city ; Hazlehurst v. Free man, 52 Ga. 244; Appeal of Western Penn sylvania R. Co., 99 Pa. 155 ; Tennessee & A. R. Co. v. Adams, 3 Head (Tenn.) 596; contra North-Eastern R. Co. v. Payne, 8 Rich. L. (S. C.) 177. And see Farmers' Turnpike Road v. Coventry, 10 Johns. (N. Y.) 389, where in a similar case "to" was construed "into;" and Mohawk Bridge Co. v. R. Co., 6 Paige Ch. (N. Y.) 554, where, "at or near" was held equivalent to "within." But from a town to another in an indictment for trans portation of liquor does not charge it as done within the town ; State v. Bushey, Me. 459, 24 Atl. 940. To construe reasonably the expression a road from a village to a creek within the same village, in a statute, rehuires that it be taken inclusively; Smith v. Helmer, 7 Barb. (N. Y.) 416. Sailing from a port means out of it; U. S. v. La Coste, 2 Mass. 129, Fed. Cas. No. 15,548.
Descent from a parent cannot be con strued to mean through a parent, it must be immediate, from the person designated ; Gardner v. Collins, 2 Pet. (U. S.) 58, 86, 7 L. Ed. 347; Case v. Wildridge, 4 Ind. 51; but the words from the part of the father in elude a descent, either immediately from the father or from any person in the line of the father ; Shippen v. Izard, 1 S. & R. (Pa.) 222.
The words to be paid for in from six to eight week8 have no definite meaning and it was properly left to the jury to say if the suit was brought prematurely ; L. R. 9 C. P. 20. From the loading in a marine policy or dinarily means that the risk is covered after the goods are on board, but this meaning may be qualified by any words in the policy indicating a different intention; 16 East 240; L. R. 7 Q. B. 580, 702. A contract to deliver from one to three thousand bushels gives the seller an option to deliver any quantity he chooses within the limits named; Small v. Quincy, 4 Greenl. (Me.) 497. Appraisers living. from one to one and a half miles away, in a fairly well settled community, are prima facie from the neighborhood; State v.. Jung ling, 116 Mo. 162, 22 S. W. 688.