 The writing, it is true, may be read by the light of surrounding circumstances, in order more perfectly to understand the intent and meaning of the parties ; but, as they have constituted the writing to be the only outward and visible expression of their...  Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature of ... - Página 321por Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1858Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1847 - 710 páginas
...employed by the parties in making the contract, than that which is furnished by the writing itself; no other words are to be added to it, nor substituted in its stead. Surrounding circumstances maybe invoked, to cast light upon the meaning of the parties. The rule does... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour - 1852 - 716 páginas
...employed by the parties, in making the contract, than that which is furnished by the contract itself. No other words are to be added to it, nor substituted in its stead, and the duty of the court is, in all such cases, to ascertain, not what the parties may have secretly... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - 1858 - 710 páginas
...been agreed upon between the parties. In the language of a learned writer, " the parties constitute the writing to be the only outward and visible expression of their meaning, and no other words are to be added to it, or substituted in its stead." (1 Greenl. Ev. § 277.) I am... | |
 | Simon Greenleaf - 1866 - 756 páginas
...writing itself. The writing, it is true, may be read by the light of surrounding circumstances, in order more perfectly to understand the intent and meaning...their meaning, no other words are to be added to it, or substituted in its stead. The duty of the court in such cases, is to ascertain, not what the parties... | |
 | Theophilus Parsons - 1868 - 700 páginas
...writing itself. The writing, it is true, may be read by the light of surrounding circumstance!!, in order more perfectly to understand the intent and meaning...be added to it nor substituted in its stead." The letter of the rule does not extend beyond this. In NY GasLight Co. v. Mech. Fire Ins. Co. of NY, 2... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (1st Circuit), William Henry Clifford - 1869 - 714 páginas
...read by the light of the surrounding circumstances, in order more perfectly to understand the trae intent and meaning of the parties ; but as they have...their meaning, no other words are to be added to it, or substituted in its stead. 1 Greenl. Ev. sec. 275-277. Every written instrument, as a general rule,... | |
 | 1880 - 554 páginas
...instrument. "The writing," says Greenleaf, "may be read by the light of surrounding circumstances in order more perfectly to understand the intent and meaning...constituted the writing to be the only outward and reliable expression of their meaning, no other words are to be added to it, nor substituted in its... | |
 | Lorenzo Smith Boswell Sawyer, United States. Circuit Court (9th Circuit) - 1875 - 786 páginas
...he should acquire the title, they have signally failed to express it. Says Greenleaf: As the parties "have constituted the writing to be the only outward...their meaning, no other words are to be added to it or substituted in its stead. The duty of the court in such cases is to ascertain, not what the parties... | |
 | Iowa. Supreme Court - 1876 - 784 páginas
...writing itself. The writing, it is true, may be read by the light of surrounding circumstances, in order more perfectly to understand the intent and meaning...their meaning, no other words are to be added to it, or substituted in its stead/' Ib. Siction 277. Such being the scope and purpose of the rule rejecting... | |
 | Simon Greenleaf - 1876 - 762 páginas
...Cheseborough, 36 Conn, generally, a certificate of acknowledg- 39; Ross v. Espy, 66 Penn St. 394.] meaning of the parties ; but, as they have constituted...their meaning, no other words are to be added to it, or substituted in its stead. The duty of the court in such cases is to ascertain, not what the parties... | |
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