Supreme Court of Connecticut June 15, 1818 (Stanton v. Button)

Swift, Ch. J.

A court cannot, by intendment or construction, fill a blank, or supply a word. They can only decide on the meaning and import of the words made use of. Here the words madfe use of can only import, that the person appearing before the justice of the peace, was the signer *529ami sealer of the deed : they do not import that lie acknowledged it, nor are they equivalent to such word.