The best rule of construction is that which takes the words to comprehend a subject that falls within their usual sense, unless there is something like declaration plain to the contrary... A Treatise on the Law of Legacies - Page 410by Roper Stote Donnison Roper - 1829Full view - About this book
| Great Britain. Court of Chancery - Equity - 1827 - 652 pages
...more or less convenience, with which that subject may be, which he has declared shall be, applied. The best rule of construction is that, which takes...not mean that, be considered as having no. meaning. . (92) For. 44. Atk. 581. 1 Vet. 268. In this, view of the case my opinion is, that, if this testator... | |
| New Jersey. Court of Chancery - Law reports, digests, etc - 1914 - 768 pages
...doctrine to the construction of wills, and that the best rule for the construction of such documents is that which takes the words to comprehend a subject...their usual sense, unless there is something like a declaration plain to the contrary. Parker v. Marchant, TY & 0. 290; 11 LJ Ch.'223, the reason being... | |
| Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Scott - Law reports, digests, etc - 1835 - 816 pages
...the more or less convenience with which that subject may be, which he has declared shall be, applied. The best rule of construction is that which takes...not mean that, be considered as having no meaning." Strong v. Teatt is, however, the leading case upon the subject. There, A. Mervin, on the marriage of... | |
| Ireland. Court of King's Bench - Law reports, digests, etc - 1840 - 448 pages
...estate. The true principle of construction is thus laid down in the modern case of Church v. Mundy (t), " The best rule of construction is, that which takes the words to com" prehend a subject that falls within their usual sense, unless there is. 1839. (a) 1 Leon. 283.... | |
| Canals - 1846 - 956 pages
...words property which those words are always considered as comprehending •" and a little lower down, " the best rule of construction is that which takes the words to comprehend a subject which falls within their usual sense, unless there is something like declaration plain to the contrary... | |
| Equity - 1840 - 438 pages
...The true principle of constructioa is thus laid down in the modern case of Church v. Mundy (i'), " The best rule of construction is, that which takes the words to com" prehend a subject that falls within their usual sense, unless there is (ii) 1 Leon. 283. (c) 2... | |
| Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, James Manning, Thomas Colpitts Granger - Election law - 1841 - 1114 pages
...those words are always considered as comprehending." The best rule of construction is that which makes the words to comprehend a subject that falls within...something like declaration plain to the contrary." The question is, therefore, whether there is in this will a manifest and plain declaration of intention... | |
| Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Scott - Law reports, digests, etc - 1841 - 922 pages
...simple and practicable rule laid down by Lord Eldon in the case I have already referred to, " that the best rule of construction is that which takes the words to comprehend a subject which falls within their usual sense, unless there is something like declaration plain to the contrary."... | |
| Great Britain. Court of Chancery, Edward Younge, John Collyer - Equity - 1843 - 800 pages
...the more or less convenience with which that subject may be, which he has declared shall be, applied. The best rule of construction is that which takes...something like declaration plain to the contrary." The words " goods, chattels, and effects," which the hequest contended to be residuary contains, or... | |
| Ireland. High Court of Chancery, William B. Drury, Robert R. Warren - Equity - 1843 - 734 pages
...estate." This position it would be difficult to support. Lord Eldon says, in Church v. Mundy(a), " that the best rule of construction is that, which takes...is something like declaration plain to the contrary :" that principle was recognized and acted upon in a late case of Doe v. Thomas(b), where the case... | |
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