 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1827 - 682 pages
...instrument must prevail ; that this intention must be collected from its words ; that its words are to be understood in that sense in which they are generally used by those for whom the instrument was intended ; that its provisions are neither to be restricted into insignificance, nor... | |
 | Maryland - Bankruptcy - 1831 - 256 pages
...the instrument must prevail; that this intention must be collected from its words; that its words are to be understood in that sense in which they are generally used by those for whom the instrument was intended; that its provisions are neither to be restricted into insignificance, nor... | |
 | Henry Baldwin - Constitutional law - 1837 - 236 pages
...Wh. 437. The intention must prevail: it must be collected from the words of the instrument, which are to be understood in that sense in which they are generally used by those for whom the instrument was intended. Its provisions are not to be construed into insignificance, nor extended to... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...instrument must prevail ; that this intention must be collected from its words ; that its words are to be understood in that sense in which they are generally used by those for whom the instrument was intended ; that its provisions are neither to be restricted into insignificance, nor... | |
 | Bible - 1844 - 888 pages
...the Instrument must prevail; that this intention must be collected from its words; that its words are to be understood in that sense in which they are generally used by those for whom the Instrument was intended ;-that its provisions are neither to be restricted into insignificance, nor... | |
 | Lysander Spooner - Slavery - 1845 - 168 pages
...the instrument must prevail; that this intention must be collected from its words; that its words are to be understood in that sense in which they are generally used by those for whom the instrument was intended." On this principle of construction, there is not the least authority for saying... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1876 - 650 pages
...necessarily deal in general language, and in their intepretation, words are to be understood in the sense in which they are generally used by those for whom the instrument was intended. Our state constitution, like the constitutions (we believe) of every other... | |
 | George Van Santvoord - Electronic books - 1854 - 550 pages
...instrument must prevail ; that this intention must be collected from its words ; that its words are to be understood in that sense in which they are generally used by those for whom the instrument was intended ; that its provisions are neither to be restricted into insignificance, nor... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional history - 1857 - 770 pages
...instrument must prevail ; that this intention must be collected from ils words ; that its words are to be understood in that sense in which they are generally used by those for whom the instrument was intended ; that ils provisions are neither to be restricted into insignificance, nor... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 822 pages
...instrument must prevail ; that this intention must be collected from its words ; that its words are to be understood in that sense in which they are generally used by those for whom the instrument was intended ; that its provisions are neither to be restricted into insignificance, nor... | |
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To say that the intention of the instrument must prevail ; that this intention must be collected from its words ; that its words are to be understood in that sense in which they are generally used by those for whom the instrument was intended ; that its... 
