Ordinary mortals, however, will struggle to discern meaningful distinction.

That was only a meaningful distinction if legal ownership meant something different from beneficial ownership.

By the same token, there was a meaningful distinction of the same kind between assets held beneficially and those held otherwise than beneficially which were all within the new words.

Meaningful distinctions, these scholars assert, can be drawn from varying lengths and angles of dash, and differing arrangements of text on the page.

Writers over the last decades have attempted to salvage meaningful distinctions between the words from the confused wreckage of historical sources.