 | Henry Norris Copp - Land tenure - 1875 - 1000 pages
...[TITLE iv. turers and the public, the terms of which are expressed and set forth in the act ; and that the rule of construction in all such cases is now fully established to be, that any ambiguity in the terms of the contract must operate against the adventurers and in favor of... | |
 | Henry John Wastell Coulson, Urquhart Atwell Forbes - Canals - 1880 - 788 pages
...bargain between a company of " adventurers and the public, the terms of which are " expressed in the statute ; and the rule of construction in " all such...not clearly " given to them by the Act. This rule is laid down in " distinct terms by the Court in the case of T/w Hull Dock " Co. v. La Mai 'dic, * where... | |
 | William Pugsley - 1880 - 716 pages
...a bargain between a company of adventurers and the public, the term? of which are expressed in the Statute : and the rule of construction, in all such...cases, is now fully established to be this, — that ambiguity in the terms of the contract must operate against the adventurers, and in favor of the public... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 1062 pages
...terms of which are expressed in the statute" (charter). The rule of construction in all such cases is this: that any ambiguity in the terms of the contract must operate against the adventurers and in favor of the public, and the company can claim nothing that is not clearly given them by the charter.... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 892 pages
...a bargain between a company of adventurers and the public, the terms of which are expressed in the statute. And the rule of construction in all such...contract must operate against the adventurers and in favor of the public; and the plaintiffs can claim nothing which is not clearly given to them by the... | |
 | Sir Fortunatus Dwarris - Constitutional law - 1885 - 698 pages
...a bargain between a company of adventurers and the public, the terms of which are expressed in the statute ; and the rule of construction in all such cases is now fully understood to be this : — that any ambiguity in the terms of the contract, must operate against the... | |
 | Jabez Gridley Sutherland - Law - 1891 - 836 pages
...a bargain between a company of adventurers and the public, the terms of which are expressed in the statute ; and the rule of construction in all such...contract must operate against the adventurers and in favor of the public ; and the plaintiffs can claim nothing that is not clearly given to them by the... | |
 | Henry Hardcastle - Law - 1892 - 748 pages
...adventurers and the public, the terms of which are expressed in the statute, and the rule of construction iii all such cases is now fully established to be this,...of the public, and the plaintiffs can claim nothing that is not clearly given them by the Act." So we find that, if in a private Act clauses are introduced... | |
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This, like many other cases, is a bargain between a company of adventurers and the public, the terms of which are expressed in the statute ; and the rule of construction, in all such cases, is now fully established to be this ; that any ambiguity in the... 
