...[1.] Marriage settlements, when there is any doubt in regard to their construction must be expounded so as to give effect to the intention of the parties, and tin word " issue" is often used as a word of purchase, and must be frequently ao interpreted. * [2.}...

...3. Marriage settlements, when there is any doubt in regard to their construction, must be expounded so as to give effect to the intention of the parties, and the word " issue" is often used as a word of purchase, and must be frequently so interpreted. Lafitte...

...— I am of opinion that our judgment must be for the plaintiff. I think every contract ought to be construed so as to give effect to the intention of the parties; and that intention is to be gathered from the nature of the transaction as expressed in the words of the...

...Rosnagle, 310. WRITTEN CONTRACT— In harmonizing apparently conflicting clauses in a contract they must be construed so as to give effect to the intention of the parties, and the clause which contributes most to the declared pbject of the instrument will control. See Mills-Carleton...

...Dec. Dig. § 582.*] 2. CONTRACTS (§ 169*)— CONSTBUCTION— GENERAL RULES. Every contract should be construed so as to give effect to the intention of the parties, and it is proper to consider all negotiations leading to its formation, its subject-matter, the end to...

...it has been repeatedly held that contracts of suretyship are to be construed, like other contracts, so as to give effect to the intention of the parties, and, as stated by Judge Earl in People v. Backus, 117 NY, 196, 22 NE 759: "In ascertaining that Intention...

...precise meaning of words where the intention is manifest, but will marshal the words, if necessary, so as to give effect to the intention of the parties ; * and it sometimes happens," that a different meaning will be given to the same words, when they refer to...

...whethera contract of guaranty is a continuingoneor not. Guaranties, like other < ont facts, must be construed so as to give effect to the intention of the parties, and if, upon their face, the intention be doubtful, resort may be had to pa rol evidence of the situation...

...written instrument, the first point is to ascertain what the parties themselves meant and understood, so as to give effect to the intention of the parties; and, to do this, the contract must he considered in its entirety, and no clause, sentence, or word should...

...instrument was a contract to sell and not a sale itself. Stewart v. Fowler, 37 Kan. 677. Contracts should be construed so as to give effect to the intention of the parties, and where that intention is sufficiently apparent, effect should be given to it, even though violence be...