 | Great Britain. Court of Chancery, Sir George Jessel, Apsley Petre Peter - 1883 - 602 Seiten
...17 Ch. Div. 746.] The ME : " In construing wills, and indeed statutes and all written instruments, the grammatical and ordinary sense of the words is...some repugnance or inconsistency with the rest of that instrument. In that case the grammatical and ordinary sense of the words may be modified so as... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Chancery, Sir George Jessel, Apsley Petre Peter - 1883 - 600 Seiten
...lead to some absurdity or some repugnance or inconsistency with the rest of that instrument. In that case the grammatical and ordinary sense of the words...that absurdity and inconsistency, but no further." Grey v. Pearson, 26 LJE, HL (Ch.) 473 ; 6 HL, Ch. 61, per Lord Wensleydale. Lord Blackburn, in The... | |
 | Herbert Broom, Herbert Francis Manisty, Charles Francis Cagney - 1884 - 1078 Seiten
...construing wills, statutes, and, in TUe"^oidcn fact, all written instruments has been thus stated : " The grammatical and ordinary sense of the words is...avoid that absurdity and inconsistency, but no further " (b). The " golden rule " must, however, be applied with much •caution. " If," remarked the late... | |
 | E. O. Macdevitt - 1884 - 588 Seiten
...would be mere pedantry on my part to cite in detail the well-known cases establishing the rule, that the grammatical and ordinary sense of the words is...repugnance or inconsistency with the rest of the instrument or statute. The Master of the Rolls has cited very appositely the words of Pollock, CB, in Miller v.... | |
 | Josiah William Smith - 1884 - 960 Seiten
...contradiction, be differently applied (f). But in construing statutes and all written instruments, the grammatical and ordinary sense of the words is...repugnance or inconsistency with the rest of the instrument (ff). 2613. (a) Mallan v. May, 13 M. & W. 511. (J) 1 Pres. Shep. T. 87 ; Pollock, . B., in Mallan v.... | |
 | 1884 - 450 Seiten
...rales of construction, let as preface the " golden ralo," which is applicable to all documents : " The grammatical and ordinary sense of the words is to be adhered to, unless that wonlil lead to some absnrdity or pome repugnance or inconsistency with tho rest of the instrument.... | |
 | 1886 - 652 Seiten
...law in Westminster Hall, that, in construing wills, and indeed statutes and all written instruments, the grammatical and ordinary sense of the words is...sense of the words may be modified so as to avoid the absurdity and inconsistency, but no further." In Young v. Robertson (4 Macq. HL 0. 314; 2 Scotch... | |
 | 1909 - 1162 Seiten
...the famous case of Grey v. Pearson, 6 HLC 61, at page 106, cited In the brief for the defendant, that the grammatical and ordinary sense of the words is to be adhered to; but Lord Wensleydale Is careful to add: "Unless that would lead to some absurdity or some repugnance... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - 1889 - 1110 Seiten
...Pearson, 6 II. L. Cas., 105, the rule as follows: "In construing wills and all written instruments, the grammatical and ordinary sense of the words is...case the grammatical and ordinary sense of the words Opinion. Opinion. may be modified, so as to avoid that absurdity and inconsistency, but no farther."... | |
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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,... 
