 ... there is no rule of law better settled, or more salutary in its application to contracts, than that which precludes the admission of parol evidence to contradict or substantially vary the legal import of a written agreement...  Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Ohio - Side 317av Ohio. Supreme Court - 1872Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1824 - 990 sider
...contracts, than that 1834. which precludes the admission of parol evidence, '^£^t~' toco.ntradict or substantially vary the legal import »• of a written agreement. Evidence of uaasre or Bank of Co- • i_ .j . /• i_. i lumbia. custom is, however, never considered of this character... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1832 - 976 sider
...settled, or more salutary in its application to contracts, than that which precludes the admission of parol evidence, to contradict, or substantially vary the legal import of a written agree. ment. Evidence of usage or custom is, however, never considered of this character, but is received... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Chancery, Alonzo Christopher Paige - 1839 - 692 sider
...ground can a deed be contradicted by ptirol proof. The rule of evidence that parol proof is inadmissible to contradict or substantially vary the legal import of a written agreement, is the same in equity as at law. (Stevens v. Cooper, 1 John. Ch. R. 429.) Where the consideration is... | |
 | John Duer - 1845 - 822 sider
...settled, or more salutary in its application to contracts, than that which precludes the admission of parol evidence, to contradict or substantially...purpose of ascertaining the sense and understanding of parties by their contracts, which are made vrilh reference to such usage or custom ; for the custom... | |
 | James Philemon Holcombe - 1846 - 376 sider
...established by independent testimony. Third ; Courts of Equity recognise the general inadmissibility of parol evidence to contradict, or substantially vary the legal import of a written agreement. Such testimony is not only contrary to the Statute of Frauds, but to the maxims of the common law,... | |
 | 1847 - 554 sider
...settled, or more salutary in its application to contracts, than that which precludes the admission of parol evidence, to contradict or substantially vary the legal import of a written agreement." Parol evidence may be admitted to explain a written agreement where there is a latent ambiguity ; or... | |
 | New York (State). Supreme Court, John Lansing Wendell - 1847 - 704 sider
...evidence. There is no rule better settled than that which declares that parol evidence is inadmissible to contradict or substantially vary the legal import of a written agreement, and especially one unEvans v. Wells. der seal. In the case of Stephens v. Cooper, I Johns. Ch. R. 429,... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1848 - 702 sider
...respectable authorities. We believe it to be a departure from that rule of law which precludes the admission of parol evidence, to contradict, or substantially vary the legal import of a written agreement, than which none is better settled, or more salutary in its application to contracts. But the dispute... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1858 - 676 sider
...no rule better settled or more salutary in its application than that which precludes the admission of parol evidence to contradict or substantially vary the legal import of a written agreement." The case of Brochmore v. Davenport, 14 Texas Rep., 602, a case precisely similar to the present, adopts... | |
 | Richard Peters - 1860 - 792 sider
...Cond. Rep. 401. 40. There is no rule of law better settled, than that which precludes the admission of parol evidence to contradict or substantially vary the legal import of a written agreement ; but evidence of usage or custom is never considered of this character. Renner v. The Bank of Columbia,... | |
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