 | Great Britain. Court of Chancery - Equity - 1843 - 720 pages
...the strict, plain, common meaning of the words themselves ; and that, in such case, evidence dehors the instrument, for the purpose of explaining it according to the surmised or alleged mtention of the parties to the instrument, is utterly inadmissible. If it were otherwise, no lawyer... | |
 | Herbert Broom - Legal maxims - 1845 - 544 pages
...to the strict plain common meaning of the words themselves ; and that, in such case, evidence dehors the instrument, for the purpose of explaining it according...parties to the instrument, is utterly inadmissible (s). The true interpretation, however, of every instrument, being manifestly that which will make the... | |
 | Charles Greenstreet Addison - Contracts - 1847 - 988 pages
...construed according to the strict plain and common meaning of the words themselves ; and evidence dehorn the instrument for the purpose of explaining it according...the surmised or alleged intention of the parties, is utterly inadmissible. If it were otherwise, no lawyer would be safe in advising upon the construction... | |
 | John Pitt Taylor - Evidence (Law) - 1848 - 756 pages
...sole question being, non quod voluit, sed quod dixit (a). Indeed, if this were not the rule of law, no lawyer would be safe in advising upon the construction...clearest title undermined, if, at some future period, parol evidence of a particular meaning which the party affixed to his words, or of his secret intention... | |
 | Herbert Broom - Legal maxims - 1852 - 616 pages
...to the strict plain common meaning of the words themselves ; and that, in such case, evidence dehors the instrument, for the purpose of explaining it according...intention of the parties to the instrument, is utterly inadmissible.1 The true interpretation, however, of every instrument being manifestly that which will... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Chancery - Equity - 1853 - 598 pages
...the strict, plain, coh,mon meaning of the words themselves; and that, in such case, evidence debars the instrument, for the purpose of explaining it according...inadmissible. If it were otherwise, no lawyer would bo safe in advising upon the construction of a written instrument, nor any party, in taking under it... | |
 | Solomon Atkinson - Contracts - 1853 - 562 pages
...according to the strict, plain, common meaning of the words themselves; and, in such case, evidence dehors the instrument, for the purpose of explaining it according...parties to the instrument, is utterly inadmissible" (f). The true interpretation, however, of every instrument, being manifestly that which will make it... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - Contracts - 1855 - 1120 pages
...plain, common meaning of the words themselves ; and that, in such case, evidence dehors Г °101 ] the instrument, °for the purpose of explaining it,...the surmised or alleged intention of the parties, is utterly inadmissible.3 000 The true interpretation, however, of every instrument, being manifestly... | |
 | Joseph Goodeve - Evidence - 1862 - 776 pages
...the strict, plain, common meaning of -the words themselves ; and that, in such case, evidence dehors the instrument, for the purpose of explaining it according...clearest title undermined, if, at some future period, parol evidence of the particular meaning which the party affixed to his words, or of his secret intention... | |
 | Simon Greenleaf - Evidence (Law) - 1866 - 756 pages
...the strict, plain, common meaning of the words themselves ; and that, in such case, evidence dehors the instrument, for the purpose of explaining it according...intention of the parties to the instrument, is utterly inadmis•iblp. If it were otherwise, no lawyer would be safe in advising upon the conitniction of... | |
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... the instrument, for the purpose of explaining it according to the surmised or alleged intention of the parties to the instrument, is utterly inadmissible. 
