This principle was stated by the Judicial Committee in H.H. Ruckmaboye vs Lulloobhoy Mottic hund, Moore 's Indian Appeals, Vol. 5, p. 234 at 250 thus: 258 " . it is, therefore, of considerable importance to ascertain what has been deemed to be the legal import and meaning of them, because, if it shall appear that they have long been used, in a sense which may not improperly be called technical, and have been judicially construed to have a certain meaning, and have been adopted by the Legislature in that sense, long prior to the Statute, 21 James I., c. 16, the rule of construction of Statutes will require, that the words in the Statute should be construed according to the sense in which they had been so previously used, al though that sense may vary from the strict literal meaning of them."