 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords - 1835 - 794 sider
...Respondent. Will. IT is a rule of the Courts, in construing written instruments, Construct1on. tjiat when an interest is given or an estate conveyed in...clear and decisive terms, such interest or estate cannot be taken away or cut down by raising a doubt upon the extent and meaning and application of... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Exchequer, Roger Meeson, William Newland Welsby - 1837 - 964 sider
...the House of Lords, Thomhlll v. Hall (a), it was held to be a rule in construing written instruments, that when an interest is given or an estate conveyed...clear and decisive terms, such interest or estate cannot be taken away or cut down by raising a doubt upon the meaning and application of a subsequent... | |
 | 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 - 1907 - 832 sider
...where one estate is given in one part of an instrument in clear and decisive terms, such estate cannot be taken away or cut down by raising a doubt upon the extent or meaning or application of a subsequent clause, nor by inference therefrom, nor by any subsequent... | |
 | John Scott, Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas - 1860 - 568 sider
...J Hall, 2 Clark & F. 22, it is laid down as a rule of the courts in construing written instruments, that, when an interest is given or an estate conveyed...clear and decisive .terms, such interest or estate cannot be taken away or cut down by raising a doubt upon the extent and meaning and application of... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, Charles Clark, William Finnelly - 1868 - 458 sider
...Beav. 245. 30. Devise—Cutting Doien.—It is a rule of the Courts, in construing written instruments, that when an interest is given, or an estate conveyed,...clear and decisive terms, such interest or estate cannot be taken away or cnt down by raising a doubt upon the extent and meaning and application of... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, Charles Clark, William Finnelly - 1870 - 884 sider
...Amteyf Hesse v. Steven«on.5 The case of Thornhill v. Hall6 laid down the rule in the strongest terms, that when an interest is given, or an estate conveyed, in one clause of an instrument, in clear and decisive terms, it cannot be taken away or cut down by any subsequent words... | |
 | 1880 - 554 sider
...when one estate is given in one part of an instrument in clear and decisive terms such estate cannot be taken away or cut down by raising a doubt upon the extent or meanin L: or application of a subsequent lause, nor by inference therefrom, nor by any subsequent... | |
 | 1880 - 556 sider
...when one estate is given in one part of an instrument in clear and decisive terms such estate cannot be taken away or cut down by raising a doubt upon the extent or meaniii!; or application of a subsequent lause, nor by inference therefrom, nor by any subsequent... | |
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... application of a subsequent clause, nor by inference therefrom, nor by any subsequent words that are not as clear and decisive as the words of the clause giving the Interest or estate. 
