 | Herbert Broom - Legal maxims - 1845 - 544 pages
...be, Remarks in • r. Slim v- tVUthat, where the words of any written instrument are tree •»»• from ambiguity in themselves, and where external circumstances...doubt or difficulty as to the proper application of those words to claimants under the instrument, or the subject-matter to which the instrument relates,... | |
 | Charles Greenstreet Addison - Contracts - 1847 - 988 pages
...contradistinguished from what the words express, but what is the meaning of the words he has used.(^) And " when the words of any written instrument are free from...doubt or difficulty, as to the proper application of those words to claimants under the instrument, or the subject matter to which the instrument relates,... | |
 | Herbert Broom - Legal maxims - 1852 - 616 pages
...and plain, but in equilibria, the words shall receive their more natural and proper construction.4 The general rule, observes a learned judge, I take...doubt or difficulty as to the proper application of those words to claimants under the instrument, or the subject-matter to which the instrument relates,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1857 - 646 pages
...words. In Shore v. Wilson (i), Tindal, CJ, in his judgment, (p. 565) said : — " The general rule I take to be that, where the " words of any written...doubt or difficulty as to the proper application of those words to " claimants under the instrument, or the subject-matter to which the " instrument relates,... | |
 | Solomon Atkinson - Contracts - 1853 - 562 pages
...of a written contract, are ly, paml evit1lus *a^ down 'JV 2%Mferf, CJ, in Lady Heiuley's case (h): " Where the words of any written instrument are free...doubt or difficulty as to the proper application of those words to claimants under the instrument, or the subject-matter to which the instrument relates,... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Chancery - Equity - 1853 - 598 pages
...take to be that, where the words of any written instru1843.— Attorney-General v. Shore. ment, nre free from ambiguity in themselves, and where external...doubt or difficulty as to the proper application, of those words, to claimants under the instrument or the subject matter to which the instrument relates,... | |
 | Herbert Broom - Legal maxims - 1854 - 622 pages
...and plain, but in equilibria, the words shall receive their more natural and proper construction.4 The general rule, observes a learned judge, I take...themselves, and where external circumstances *do not r*i"ni create any doubt or difficulty as to the proper application of those words to claimants under... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - Contracts - 1855 - 1120 pages
...thus deneTto 8tated by the late Lord Chief Justice Tindal (A) : — " The general no explain a rule I take to be that, where the words of any written instrument written are free from ambiguity in themselves, and where external circumcontract. 8tances do not create... | |
 | Joseph Goodeve - Evidence - 1862 - 776 pages
...case on the subject in the House of Lords, that of Shore vs. Wilson, 'I take to be, that where tJie words of any written instrument are free from ambiguity...these words to claimants under the instrument, or as to the subject-matter to which the instrument relates, such instrument is always to be construed... | |
 | Simon Greenleaf - Evidence (Law) - 1866 - 756 pages
...have been written." Lord Ch. J. Tindal expounded the same doctrine as follows : " The general rule I take to be, that where the words of any written...doubt or difficulty, as to the proper application of those words to claimants under the instrument, or the subject-matter to which the instrument relates,... | |
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I take to be, that where the words of any written instrument are free from ambiguity in themselves, and where external circumstances do not create any doubt or difficulty, as to the proper application of those words to claimants under the instrument,... 
