 | California. District Courts of Appeal - Law reports, digests, etc - 1926 - 974 pages
...quantitative limits expressed by the definition of such term. It is said in Williston on Sales, section 464 : "The addition of the qualifying words 'about,' 'more...by other stipulations or conditions which give them a broader scope or a more extensive significancy, then the contract is to be governed by such added... | |
 | Robert Preston Shealey - Public contracts - 1927 - 476 pages
...quality or character to a certain amount, the quantity specified is material, and governs the contract. The addition of the qualifying words, 'about,' 'more...by other stipulations or conditions which give them a broader scope or a more extensive significance, then the contract is to be governed by such added... | |
 | Administrative law - 1939 - 998 pages
...the maximum which can be required. The Supreme Court of the United States, has repeatedly held that "the addition of the qualifying words, 'about,' 'more or less,' and the like * * * is only for the purpose of providing against accidental variations arising from slight and unimportant... | |
 | California. District Courts of Appeal - Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 780 pages
...[4] ID. — SALES OF PERSONAL PROPERTY — USE OF WORDS "ABOUT" AND "MORE OR LESS" — EFFECT OF. — The addition of the qualifying words "about", "more or less" and the like in sales of specified quantities of personal property is only for the purpose of providing against accidental... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1923 - 756 pages
...is material and governs the contract. The addition of qualifying words in such cases only provides against accidental variations arising from slight...and unimportant excesses or deficiencies in number, weight or measure." This corresponds with the rule stated in Halsbury's Laws of England (vol. 25, p.... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 1806 pages
...the amount under the circumstances was to be regarded merely as an estimate. The court said that if "the qualifying words are supplemented by other stipulations or conditions which give them a broader scope or a more extensive significance, then the contract is to be governed by such added... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1926 - 964 pages
...quantitative limits expressed by the definition of such term. It is said in Williston on Sales, section 464 : "The addition of the qualifying words 'about,' 'more...by other stipulations or conditions which give them a broader scope or a more extensive sifrnificancy, then the contract is to be governed by such added... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 996 pages
...or less," and the decisions are to the effect that the "addition of the qualifying words 'about,1 ' more or less, ' and the like, in such cases is only...excesses or deficiencies in number, measure or weight." (Brawley v. United States, 96 US 168.) The rule is also that parol evidence is inadmissible to show... | |
 | Canada. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1925 - 758 pages
...material, and governs the contract. The addition of the qualifying words, in such cases, only provides against accidental variations arising from slight...excesses or deficiencies in number, measure, or weight. Third. But the qualifying words may be supplemented by other stipulations or conditions, eg, " as much... | |
 | California. District Courts of Appeal - Law reports, digests, etc - 1907 - 758 pages
...quality or character to n certain amount, the quantity specified is material, and goveras the contract. The addition of the qualifying .words, 'about,' 'more...by other stipulations or conditions which give them a broader scope or a more extensive significancy, then the contract is to be governed by such added... | |
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When no such independent circumstances are referred to, and the engagement is to furnish goods of a certain quality or character to a certain amount, the quantity specified is material, and governs the contract. The addition of the qualifying words 'about, 
