James E. Rice v. The United States

How courts have described this case

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• noting that in judging the import of words in then contract, the context and intention [of the parties to the contract] are paramount
• When a court interprets contractual terms, “the context and intention[s] [of the parties] are more meaningful than the [terms’] dictionary definition[s].”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).