 | Law - 1843 - 526 pages
...be collected that the true object and intent were to bind the principal and not merely . the agents courts of justice will adopt that construction of it, however informally it may be expressed. Ib. 1. (Discounting of note.) The plaintiff, being the holder 9f a negotiable note indorsed in blank,... | |
 | South Carolina. Court of Appeals, James Sanders Guignard Richardson - Equity - 1845 - 632 pages
...loose and inartificial manner. In such cases, in furtherance of the public policy of encouraging trade, if it can, upon the whole instrument, be collected...and intent of it are to bind the principal, and not merely the agent, courts of justice will adopt that construction of it, however informally it may be... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1847 - 710 pages
...commercial and maritime contracts. In such cases, in furtherance of the public policy of encouraging trade, if it can, upon the whole instrument, be collected,...and intent of it are, to bind the principal, and not merely the agent, courts of justice will adopt that construction of it, however informally it may be... | |
 | New York (State). Supreme Court, John Lansing Wendell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1847 - 704 pages
...liberal interpretation prevails ; in such cases in furtherance of the public policy of encouraging trade, if it can upon the whole instrument be collected that the true object and intent were to kind the principal and not merely the agent, courts of justice will adopt that construction... | |
 | Philip Eastman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1849 - 790 pages
...bind the principal. Dyer v. Burnham, xxv. 9. 12. If it appear, from the whole instrument, that the object and intent of it are to bind the principal, and not merely the agent, courts will give it that construction, however informally it may have been expressed.... | |
 | Joseph Story - Checks - 1851 - 794 pages
...and rarely admit of deliberate examination of the true force of words. In furtherance of this policy, if it can, upon the whole instrument, be collected,...to bind the principal, and not to bind the agent, com la of justice will adopt that construction of it, however informally it may be expressed.2 Thus,... | |
 | Joseph Story - Checks - 1856 - 758 pages
...and rarely admit of deliberate examination of the true force of words. In furtherance of this policy, if it can, upon the whole instrument, be collected,...construction of it, however informally it may be expressed. 3 Thus, where an agent, duly authorized, 1 Ibid. [But it has been held that a Note signed AB [for C... | |
 | District courts - 1859 - 256 pages
...loose and inartificial manner. In such cases, in furtherance of the public policy of encouraging trade, if it can, upon the whole instrument, be collected...and intent of it are to bind the principal, and not merely the agent. Courts of justice will adopt that construction of it, however informally it may be... | |
 | Joseph Story - Agency (Law) - 1863 - 704 pages
...8 Pick. 56; Ante, § 147, note; Bell ». Bruen, 1 Howard, Sup. Ct. R. 169; SC 17 Peters, R. 161. L_ are to bind the principal and not to bind the agent,...that construction of it, however informally it may be expressed.1 /Thus, where an agent duly authorized, made a promissory note thus : " I promise to pay... | |
 | Law - 1889 - 546 pages
...then he will be personally bound, although he is known to be or avowedly acts as agent." Story Prom. Notes, § 68. But " if it can, upon the whole instrument,...collected that the true object and intent of it are to hind the principal, and not to hind the agent, courts of justice will adopt that construction of it,... | |
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if it can, upon the whole instrument, be collected that the true object and intent of it are to bind the principal, and not to bind the agent, courts of justice will adopt that construction of it, however informally it may be expressed ": Id., sec. 
