 | Permanent Court of Arbitration - Fisheries - 1912 - 768 pages
...written instruments, the grammatical and ordinary sense of the words is to be adhered to, unless that would lead to some absurdity or some repugnance or inconsistency with the rest of the instrument, in which case the grammatical and ordinary sense of the words may be modified, so as to avoid that... | |
 | Samuel Williston - Contracts - 1920 - 1254 pages
...them.79 This rule, T« "The grammatical and ordinary sense of the words is to be adhered to, unless that would lead to some absurdity, or some repugnance or inconsistency with the rest of the instrument, in which case the grammatical and ordinary sense of the words may be modified so as to avoid that absurdity... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords. Committee for Privileges - 1922 - 202 pages
...written instruments, the ' grammatical and ordinary sense of the words is to be adhered to, unless that would lead to some absurdity, or some repugnance or inconsistency with the rest of the instrument, in which case the grammatical and ordinary sense of of the words may be modified so as to avoid that... | |
 | Criminal law - 1923 - 448 pages
...been thus stated: 'The grammatical and ordinary sense of the words is to be adhered to unless that would lead to some absurdity or some repugnance or inconsistency with the rest of the instrument, in which case the grammatical and ordinary sense of the words may be modified, so as to avoid that... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1881 - 806 pages
...written instruments, the grammatical and ordinary sense of the words is to be adhered to, unless that would lead to some absurdity or some repugnance or inconsistency with the rest of the instrument, in which case the grammatical and ordinary sense of the words may be modified so as to avoid that absurdity... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1922 - 874 pages
...law, but to make one. 2. The grammatical and ordinary sense of words is to be adhered to, unless that would lead to some absurdity, or some repugnance or inconsistency with the rest of the instrument, in which case the grammatical and ordinary sense of the words must be modified so far as may be necessary... | |
 | New Brunswick. Supreme Court, Ward Chipman, John Campbell Allen, Allen Otty Earle, Thomas Carleton Allen, George F. S. Berton, David Shank Kerr, George B. Seely, James Hannay, William Pugsley, George Wheelock Burbidge, Arthur I. Trueman, John L. Carleton, George W. Allen, William Henry Harrison, Ernest Doiron, Douglas King Hazen - Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 692 pages
...written instruments, the grammatical and ordinary sense of the words is to be adhered to, unless that would lead to some absurdity, or some repugnance or inconsistency with the rest of the instrument ; in which case, the grammatical and ordinary sense of the words may be modified so as to avoid that... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1918 - 724 pages
...written instruments the grammatical and ordinary sense of the words is to be adhered to unless that would lead to some absurdity or some repugnance or inconsistency with the rest of the instrument, in which case the grammatical and ordinary sense of the words may be modified so as to avoid that absurdity... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 1172 pages
...Lord Wensleydale), "the grammatical and ordinary sense of the words is to be adhered to, unless that would lead to some absurdity or some repugnance or Inconsistency with the rest of the instrument, In which case the grammatical and ordinary sense of the words may be modified, so as to avoid that... | |
 | Great Britain. Courts - Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 656 pages
...written instruments, the grammatical and ordinary sense of the words is to be adhered to, unless that would lead to some absurdity or some repugnance, or inconsistency with the rest of the instrument, in which case the grammatical and ordinary sense of the words may be modified so as to avoid this absurdity... | |
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Hall, that in construing wills, and indeed statutes, and all written instruments, the grammatical and ordinary sense of the words is to be adhered to, unless that would lead to some absurdity or some repugnance or inconsistency with the rest of the instrument,... 
