 | Herbert Broom - Legal maxims - 1845 - 544 pages
...as to the proper application of those words to claimants under the instrument, or the subject-matter to which the instrument relates, such instrument is...dehors the instrument, for the purpose of explaining it according to the surmised or alleged intention of the parties to the instrument, is utterly inadmissible... | |
 | Charles Greenstreet Addison - Contracts - 1847 - 988 pages
...external circumstances do not create any doubt or difficulty, as to the proper application of those words to claimants under the instrument, or the subject...always to be construed according to the strict plain and common meaning of the words themselves ; and evidence dehorn the instrument for the purpose of... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1857 - 646 pages
...to the proper application of those words to " claimants under the instrument, or the subject-matter to which the " instrument relates, such instrument...words " themselves ; and that in such case evidence dehort the in" strument, for the purpose of explaining it according to the (a) 2 Bing., NC, 444. (c)... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Chancery - Equity - 1853 - 598 pages
...external circumstances do not create any doubt or difficulty as to the proper application, of those words, to claimants under the instrument or the subject...always to be construed according to the strict, plain, coh,mon meaning of the words themselves; and that, in such case, evidence debars the instrument, for... | |
 | Solomon Atkinson - Contracts - 1853 - 562 pages
...as to the proper application of those words to claimants under the instrument, or the subject-matter to which the instrument relates, such instrument is...plain, common meaning of the words themselves; and, in such case, evidence dehors the instrument, for the purpose of explaining it according to the surmised... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - Contracts - 1855 - 1120 pages
...as to the proper application of those words to claimants under the instrument, or the subject-matter to which the instrument relates, such instrument is...themselves ; and that, in such case, evidence dehors Г °101 ] the instrument, °for the purpose of explaining it, according to the surmised or alleged... | |
 | Joseph Goodeve - Evidence - 1862 - 776 pages
...the proper application of these words to claimants under the instrument, or as to the subject-matter to which the instrument relates, such instrument is...dehors the instrument, for the purpose of explaining it according to the surmised or alleged intention of the parties to the instrument, is utterly inadmissible.... | |
 | Simon Greenleaf - Evidence (Law) - 1866 - 756 pages
...as to the proper application of those words to claimants under the instrument, or the subject-matter to which the instrument relates, such instrument is...dehors the instrument, for the purpose of explaining it according to the surmised or alleged intention of the parties to the instrument, is utterly inadmis•iblp.... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1919 - 660 pages
...instrument, or the subject-matter to which the instrument relates, such an instrument, said Tindal, C. J ., is always to be construed according to the strict,...meaning of the words themselves, and that in such cases evidence dehors the instrument for the purpose of explaining it, according to the surmised or... | |
 | Thomas Smith James - Charities laws and legislation - 1867 - 928 pages
...external circumstances do not create any doubt or difficulty as to the proper application of those words to claimants under the instrument or the subject...dehors the instrument, for the purpose of explaining it according to the surmised or alleged intention of the parties to the instrument is utterly inadmissible.... | |
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The general rule 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... 
