Amos v. Coffey

How courts have described this case

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• noting that under the plain meaning rule “[t]he language used [in a contract or conveyance] is to be taken in its ordinary signification ... ”
• “[W]hen the parties set out the terms of their agreement in a clear and explicit writing then' such writing is the sole memorial of the contract and ... the sole evidence of the agreement.”
• retaining a strict application of the parol evidence rule
• “[W]hen the parties set out the terms of their agreement in a clear and explicit writing then such writing is the sole memorial of the contract and . . . the sole evidence of the agreement.” (quoting Durham v. Pool Equip. Co., 205 Va. 441, 446 (1964))
• “[W]hen the parties set out the terms of their agreement in a clear and explicit writing then such writing is the sole memorial of the contract and . . . the sole evidence of the agreement.” (quoting Durham v. Pool Equip. Co., 205 Va. 441, 446 (1964))
• “[W]hen the parties set out the terms of their agreement in a clear and explicit writing then such writing is the sole memorial of the contract and . . . the sole evidence of the agreement.” (quoting Durham v. Pool Equip. Co., 138 S.E.2d 55, 59 (Va. 1964))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).