| United States - Military law - 1940 - 1240 pages
...ex-pressed in the formal written instrument, the negotiations leading up to Its execution are Irrelevant. The written contract merged all previous negotiations,...to express the final understanding of the parties. Tiedcmnnn Corp. t). US (1033). 78 Ct. Cl. 16. NOTES OF DECISIONS It iu elementary that prior negotiations,... | |
| United States. General Accounting Office - Finance, Public - 1952 - 984 pages
...contractor unequivocally agreed to furnish the materials and perform the work for the price quoted therein is presumed, in law, to express the final understanding of the parties and the contract may not he modified on the basis of the alleged error to provide for an increase in the... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 1228 pages
...Brawley v. United 8 taten, 96 US 173 [24: 024], where it was said: "All this is irrelevant matter. The written contract merged all previous negotiations,...to express the final understanding of the parties. If the contract did not express the true agreement, it was the claimant's folly to have signed it.... | |
| United States. President (1953-1961 : Eisenhower) - Presidents - 1960 - 1504 pages
...formal written contract entered into on the basis of negotiations between the parties merges all such previous negotiations and is presumed in law to express the final understanding of the parties. Contract W-33-O38 ac-2O23, as amended, was entered into on a fixed-price basis. It contained no provision... | |
| United States. Court of Claims, Audrey Bernhardt - Law reports, digests, etc - 1963 - 954 pages
...parol evidence rule. As the Supreme Court said in Brawley v. United States, 96 US 168, 173-174 (1877): The written contract merged all previous negotiations,...to express the final understanding of the parties. If the contract did not express the true agreement, it was the claimant's folly to have signed it.... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1922 - 950 pages
...court, through Presiding Justice Chipman, stated the rule, in applying it in that case, as follows: "The written contract merged all previous negotiations,...to express the final understanding of the parties. If the contract did not express the true agreement, it was the claimant's folly to have signed it.... | |
| United States - 1949 - 1894 pages
...thereto. See firawley v. United Stales (96 US 168, 173), wherein the Supreme Court of the United States said — "* * * The written contract merged all previous...to express the final understanding of the parties. If the contract did not express the true agreement, it was the claimant's folly to have signed it.... | |
| California. District Courts of Appeal - Law reports, digests, etc - 1907 - 758 pages
...wood before the contract was signed. "All this is irrelevant matter. The written contract merged alI previous negotiations, and is presumed, in law, to express the final understanding of the parties. If the contract did not express the true agreement, it was the claimant's folly to have signed it.... | |
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