 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1900 - 804 pages
...Iftive placed them. If, thus regarded, the words embody a definite meaning, which iifvolves no absurdity and no contradiction between different parts of the same writing, then that meaning, apparent on the face of the instrument, is the one which alone we are at liberty to say was intended to be conveyed.... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional history - 1857 - 770 pages
...have placed them. If thus regarded the words embody a definite meaning, which involves no absurdity, and no contradiction between different parts of the same writing, then that meaning apparent on the face of the instrument is the one which alone we are at liberty to say was intended to be conveyed.... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - Civil procedure - 1862 - 612 pages
...which VOL. XXIII. 2 Downing agt. Marshall. involves 110 absurdity and no contradiction between the different parts of the same writing ; then that meaning,...which alone we are at liberty to say was intended to be conveyed. In such a case there is no room for construction. That which the words declare is the... | |
 | Francis Henry Upton - Capture at sea - 1863 - 536 pages
...absurdity and no contradiction between different parts of the name writing, then that meaning, apparent on the face of the instrument, is the one which alone we are at liberty to say was intended to be conveyed . In such a case there is no room for construction. That which the words declare is the... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1868 - 776 pages
...have placed them. If thus regarded the words embody a definite meaning, which involves no absurdity and no contradiction between different parts of the same writing, then that meaning, apparent on the face of the instrument, is the one which alone we are at liberty to say was intended to be conveyed.... | |
 | Florida. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1869 - 744 pages
...have placed them. If, thus regarded, the words embody a definite meaning, which involves no absurdity and no contradiction between different parts of the same writing, then that meaning apparent in the face of the instrument is the one which we alone are at liberty to say was intended to be conveyed."... | |
 | Nevada. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 582 pages
...have placed them. If, thus regarded, the words embody a definite meaning which involves no absurdity, and no contradiction between different parts of the...which alone we are at liberty to say was intended to be conveyed. In such a case there is no room for construction. That which the words declare is the... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1874 - 904 pages
...absurdity and no contradiction between different parts of the same writing, then that meaning, apparent on the face of the 'instrument, is the one which alone we are at liberty to say was intended to be conveyed. In such a case there is no room for construction. That which the words declare is the... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional law - 1874 - 750 pages
...have placed them. If thus regarded the words embody a definite meaning, which involves no absurdity, and no contradiction between different parts of the same writing, then that meaning apparent on the face of the' instrument is the one which alone we are at liberty to say was intended to be conveyed.... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1874 - 914 pages
...have placed them. If thus regarded the words embody a definite meaning, which involves no absurdity and no contradiction between different parts of the same writing, then that meaning, apparent on the face of the instrument, is the one which alone we are at liberty to say was intended to be conveyed.... | |
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... instrument is the one which alone we are at liberty to say was intended to be conveyed. In such a case there is no room for construction. That which the words declare is the meaning of the instrument ; and neither courts nor legislatures have the... 
