 | 1887 - 1096 σελίδες
...unambiguous, parol evidence will not be admitted to contradict, vary, or to explain them. Their terms are to be understood in their plain, ordinary, and popular sense, unless they have generally, in respect to the subject-matter, as by the known usage of trade, acquired a peculiar sense, distinct from the... | |
 | 1911 - 1372 σελίδες
...Greenleaf on Evidence, § 278, the rule is thus stated: "The terms of every written instrument are to be understood in their plain, ordinary, and popular sense, unless they have generally, in respect to the subjectmatter, as by the known usage of trade, or the like, acquired a peculiar sense, 'distinct... | |
 | District of Columbia. Supreme Court (1863-1936), Franklin Hubbell Mackey - 1887 - 640 σελίδες
...author says : "The rule equally applicable to all written instruments is, that the terms of it are to be understood in their plain, ordinary and popular sense, unless they have in respect of the subject-matter, or by the known usage of trade, or the like, acquired a peculiar... | |
 | 1920 - 1216 σελίδες
...generally, in respect to the subject-matter, as by the knowledge of trade or the like, acquired a peculiar sense distinct from the popular sense of the same words, or unless th« context evidently points out that in the particular instance, and in order to effectuate the immediate... | |
 | 1888 - 626 σελίδες
...that which is the plain, clear, and obvious result of the terms used therein, and these terms are. to be understood in their plain, ordinary, and popular...in respect of the subject-matter, as by the known usages of trade or the like, acquired a particular sense distinct from the popular sense of the same... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - 1888 - 1110 σελίδες
...unambiguous, parol evidence will not be admitted to contradict, vary, or to explain them. Their terms are to be understood in their plain, ordinary, and popular sense, unless they have generally, in respect to the subject-matter, as by the known usage of trade, acquired a peculiar sense, distinct from the... | |
 | Charles Greenstreet Addison - 1888 - 864 σελίδες
...must be so far disregarded. Report NY Civ. Cod«. sect. 816. See INTERPRETATION OF CONTRACTS. [BOOK i. subject-matter, as by the known usage of trade or the like, acquired a peculiar sense distinct from the popular sense of the also 2 Pars. Coutr. 516; Rusli i: Carpenter,... | |
 | 1889 - 908 σελίδες
...that words are generally taken in their ordinary sense, and the terms of every written instrument are to be understood in their plain, ordinary, and popular sense, unless they have generally, in respect to the subject-matter, acquired a special sense. The word "mortgages" has only one signitication in... | |
 | Sir Howard Warburton Elphinstone, Robert Frederick Norton, James William Clark - 1889 - 746 σελίδες
...and meaning, as collected, in the first place, from the terms used in it, which terms are themselves to be understood in their plain, ordinary, and popular sense, unless they have generally in respect to the subject-matter, as by the known usage of trade, or the like, acquired a peculiar sense distinct... | |
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... the subject-matter, as by the known usage of trade or the like, acquired a peculiar sense distinct from the popular sense of the same words, or unless the context evidently points out that they must, in the particular instance and in order to effectuate... 
