 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1900 - 804 pages
...instrument Iftive placed them. If, thus regarded, the words embody a definite meaning, which iifvolves no absurdity and no contradiction between different...parts of the same writing, then that meaning, apparent on the face of the instrument, is the one which alone we are at liberty to say was intended to be conveyed.... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional history - 1857 - 774 pages
...and grammatical arrangement in which the framers of the instrument have placed them. If thus regarded the words embody a definite meaning, which involves...parts of the same writing, then that meaning apparent on the face of the instrument is the one which alone we are at liberty to say was intended to be convened.... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 724 pages
...provision, if the words used convey a meaning which leads to no absurdity and no contradictions, the meaning apparent upon the face of "the instrument is the one which, alone, the courts are at liberty to say was intended to be conveyed. 4. SAME — presumption is ahoays in... | |
 | Francis Henry Upton - Capture at sea - 1863 - 542 pages
...grammatical arrangement in which the framers of the instrument have placed them. If thus regarded, the words embody a definite meaning, which involves...and no contradiction between different parts of the name writing, then that meaning, apparent on the face of the instrument, is the one which alone we... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1866 - 716 pages
...words of the act. In ascertaining, however, the natural signification of the words employed, if they embody a definite meaning which involves no absurdity...contradiction between different parts of the same enactment, then the meaning apparent upon the face of the statute is the one which we are at liberty... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1868 - 776 pages
...of grammatical arrangement in which the framers of the instrument have placed them. If thus regarded the words embody a definite meaning, which involves...parts of the same writing, then that meaning, apparent on the face of the instrument, is the one which alone we are at liberty to say was intended to be conveyed.... | |
 | Florida. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1869 - 744 pages
...the order of arrangement in which the framers of the instrument have placed them. If, thus regarded, the words embody a definite meaning, which involves...parts of the same writing, then that meaning apparent in the face of the instrument is the one which we alone are at liberty to say was intended to be conveyed."... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1874 - 904 pages
...of grammatical arrangement in which the framers of the instrument have placed them. If thus regarded the words embody a definite meaning, which involves...parts of the same writing, then that meaning, apparent on the face of the 'instrument, is the one which alone we are at liberty to say was intended to be... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional law - 1874 - 750 pages
...and grammatical arrangement in which the framers of the instrument have placed them. If thus regarded the words embody a definite meaning, which involves...parts of the same writing, then that meaning apparent on the face of the' instrument is the one which alone we are at liberty to say was intended to be conveyed.... | |
 | Nevada. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1877 - 518 pages
...grammatical arrangement in which the framers of the instrument have placed them. If thus regarded, the words embody a definite meaning, which involves...apparent upon the face of the instrument, is the one whicli alone we are at liberty to say was intended to be conveyed. In such a case, there is no room... | |
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If thus regarded the words embody a definite meaning, which involves no absurdity, and no contradiction between different parts of the same writing, then that meaning apparent on the face of the' instrument is the one which alone we are at liberty to... 
