 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords - Law reports, digests, etc - 1835 - 794 pages
...Respondent. Will. IT is a rule of the Courts, in construing written instruments, Construct1on. tjiat when an interest is given or an estate conveyed in...clear and decisive terms, such interest or estate cannot be taken away or cut down by raising a doubt upon the extent and meaning and application of... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1907 - 832 pages
...where one estate is given in one part of an instrument in clear and decisive terms, such estate cannot be taken away or cut down by raising a doubt upon the extent or meaning or application of a subsequent clause, nor by inference therefrom, nor by any subsequent... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Exchequer, William Newland Welsby, Edwin Tyrrell Hurlstone, John Gordon - Law reports, digests, etc - 1856 - 948 pages
...Brougham, C., held it to be a rule which admitted of no exception, that, in construing written instruments, when an interest is given or an estate conveyed in...clear and decisive terms, such interest or estate cannot be taken away or cut down by raising a doubt upon the extent and meaning and application of... | |
 | John Scott, Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 568 pages
...vol. 28), *2 N. & M. 1 (ECLR vol. 28). In Thornhill v. ' J Hall, 2 Clark & F. 22, it is laid down as a rule of the courts in construing written instruments,...clear and decisive .terms, such interest or estate cannot be taken away or cut down by raising a doubt upon the extent and meaning and application of... | |
 | Law - 1880 - 554 pages
...when one estate is given in one part of an instrument in clear and decisive terms such estate cannot be taken away or cut down by raising a doubt upon the extent or meanin L: or application of a subsequent lause, nor by inference therefrom, nor by any subsequent... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 792 pages
...to the subsequent clauses. As held in the case of Thornhill et al. v. Hull, 2 Clark & Finn., 22. " It is a rule of the courts, in construing written...an estate conveyed in one clause of the instrument Veazie r. MeGugin. in clear and decisive terms, such interest or estate can not be taken away or cut... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 674 pages
...technical meaning of the words. In Parker v. Parker, 13 Ohio St., 110, the rule in Ohio is stated: "When an interest is given or an estate conveyed in...clear and decisive terms, such interest or estate cannot be taken away or cut down by raising a doubt, upon the extent and meaning and application of... | |
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... application, of a subsequent clause, nor by inference therefrom, nor by any subsequent words that are not as clear and decisive as the words of the clause giving the interest or estate. 
