LANGUAGE

The faculty which men possess of communicating their perceptions and ideas to one another by means of articulate sounds. This is the definition of spoken language; but ideas and perceptions may be communicated without sound by writing, and this is called written language. By conventional usage certain sounds have a definite meaning in one country or in certain countries, and this is called the language of such country or countries, as the Greek, the Latin, the French or the English language. The law, too, has a peculiar language. 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 distinguished from its spirit; as “the language of the statute.”