 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1855 - 702 pages
...and should not have been construed to convert the time of payment into a penalty or forfeiture. The contract, must be construed as a whole, and the intention of the parties thus gathered, is to be carried into effect. It is submitted, that it was not the agreement of the... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1922 - 700 pages
...with the provisions of the constitution of 1848. 2. SAME — a contract must be construed as a whole. A contract must be construed as a whole and the intention...entire instrument and not from detached portions, and words used in one sense in one part of the contract are, as a general rule, deemed to have been... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1922 - 1158 pages
...the construction of contracts is that, in ascertaining the intention of the parties, the instrument must be construed as a whole, and the intention of the parties deduced from the entire agreement, and not from any part or parts of it 13 CJ § 486, pp. 525527; 634.... | |
 | Oklahoma. Supreme Court, Edward Bell Green, Frank Dale, John Henry Burford, Robert Lee Williams, Matthew John Kane, Howard J. Parker, Charles Winfield Van Eaton - Law reports, digests, etc - 1922 - 702 pages
...construction ol coulrnfts is that In ascertaining the intention of the parties the whole instrument must be construed as a whole and the intention of the parties de duced from the entire agreement and not from ony part or parts if it. 13 CJ, section 486, pages... | |
 | Law - 1922 - 1008 pages
...which the framers of the instrument have placed them." Newell v. People, 7 NY 9 ; 6 RCL 842. [4, 6] A contract must be construed as a whole, and the intention...entire instrument, and not from detached portions, it being necessary to construe all its parts in order to determine the meaning of any particular part... | |
 | United States. National Railroad Adjustment Board - Arbitration, Industrial - 984 pages
...other rules and practices in effect for many, many years. It is the contention of the Employes that a contract must be construed as a whole and the intention...the entire instrument and not from detached portions thereof, as the Carrier is attempting here to do. is filling, and receives exactly the same monetary... | |
 | United States. National Railroad Adjustment Board - Arbitration, Industrial - 1088 pages
...properly compensated the Claimants in accordance with its interpretation of the rule. An agreement must be construed as a whole, and the intention of the parties is to be collected from the entire agreement, and it is also necessary that we consider all of its parts in order to determine the meaning... | |
 | United States. National Railroad Adjustment Board - Arbitration, Industrial - 878 pages
...expressed in the rule must decide tne issue. In doing this, the rule must be construed as a whole; individual clauses and particular words must be considered in connection with the rest of the rule so that each paragraph, sentence, clause, phrase or word be given some meaning if possible. In... | |
 | Law - 1926 - 1030 pages
...Interpretation as any other contract. Hammett Oil Co. v. Gypsy Oil Co.. 95 Okl. 235, 218 P. 501. The contract must be construed as a whole, and the intention of the parties collected from the entire instrument, and not from some detached portion. Wolf v. Blackwell Oil & Gas... | |
 | United States. Board of Tax Appeals - Taxation - 1936 - 1468 pages
...legal principles. The intention of the parties is to be deduced from the language employed by them. The contract must be construed as a whole and the intention of the parties must be ascertained from the entire instrument and not from detached portions. (13 Corpus Juris, p.... | |
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A contract must be construed as a whole, and the intention of the parties is to be collected from the entire instrument, and not from detached portions, it being necessary to consider all of its parts in order to determine the meaning of any particular... 
