 When parties have deliberately put their engagements into writing, in such terms as import a legal obligation, without any uncertainty as to the object or extent of such engagement, it is conclusively presumed that the whole engagement of the parties,...  A Treatise on the Law of Evidence - Page 312by Simon Greenleaf - 1866 - 675 pagesFull view - About this book
 | International Correspondence Schools - Contracts - 1903 - 636 pages
...written contract deliberately entered into by the parties cannot be explained away by oral testimony. "When parties have deliberately put their engagements...engagement, it is conclusively presumed that the whole of the engagement of the parties and the extent and manner of their undertaking was reduced to writing;... | |
 | George William Warvelle - Real property - 1902 - 684 pages
...evidence.»8 It is a rule of universal recognition that when parties deliberately put their engagements in writing, in such terms as import a legal obligation, without any uncertainty as to the object or the extent of such engagement, it is conclusively presumed that the whole engagement of the parties,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1904 - 858 pages
...instrument. " When parties have deliberately put their engagements into writing," says Greenleaf, 5 " in such terms as import a legal obligation, without...presumed that the whole engagement of the parties, and the extent and manner of their undertaking, were reduced to writing; and all oral testimony of a previous... | |
 | J. C. Wells, Edward Warren Hines, Frank L. Wells, Horace C. Brannin, William Cromwell, William Jefferson Chinn, Walter G. Chapman, William Pope Duvall Bush, Finlay Ferguson Bush, R. G. Higdon, Thomas Robert.. McBeath - Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 1272 pages
...said: "When piirties have deliberately put their engagements in writing, in such terms as import n legal obligation, without any uncertainty as to the...presumed that the whole engagement of the parties, and the extent and manner of their undertaking, was reduced to writing; and all oral testimony of a previous... | |
 | Illinois. Appellate Court, Martin L. Newell, Mason Harder Newell, Walter Clyde Jones, Keene Harwood Addington, James Christopher Cahill, Basil Jones, James Max Henderson, Ray Smith - Courts - 1904 - 750 pages
...Contained in the Written Contract. — Where partics have deliberately put their engagements in to writing in such terms as import a legal obligation,...to the object or extent of such engagement, it is conclusivelv presumed that the whole engagement of the parties and the extent and manner of their undertaking... | |
 | Thomas Welburn Hughes - Evidence (Law) - 1905 - 740 pages
...contemporaneous verbal agreements are merged in the written contract."12 Chief Justice Bailey says, "where parties have deliberately put their engagements into...presumed that the whole engagement of the parties, and the extent and manner of their undertaking, was reduced to writing, and that all oral testimony of... | |
 | J. C. Wells, Edward Warren Hines, Frank L. Wells, Horace C. Brannin, William Cromwell, William Jefferson Chinn, Walter G. Chapman, William Pope Duvall Bush, Finlay Ferguson Bush, R. G. Higdon, Thomas Robert.. McBeath - Law - 1905 - 1420 pages
...deliberately put their engagements into writing, inn such terms as import a legal obligation, without uncertainty as to the object or extent of such engagement,...presumed that the whole engagement of the parties and the extent and mnnnerof their undertaking was reduced to writing; and all oral testimony of a previous... | |
 | United States. Comptroller of the Treasury - Expenditures, Public - 1905 - 958 pages
...parcel of it. And when the writing itself upon its face is couched in such terms as import a complete legal obligation without any uncertainty as to the object or extent of the agreement, it is conclusively presumed that the whole engagement of the parties, and the extent... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 780 pages
...Greenleaf on Evidence, section 275, it is said: " When parties have deliberately put their engagement in writing in such terms as import a legal obligation,...presumed that the whole engagement of the parties and the extent and manner of their undertaking was reduced to writing." Tested by this consideration, it... | |
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