Jonathan Jay Rodriguez v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a condominium association’s Declaration and By-Laws must be construed as a whole
• explaining that “referential, relative, or qualifying words” in contracts ordinarily refer “only to the immediately preceding antecedent”
• considering prior voting practices of a condominium association board when interpreting the bylaws regarding voting
• stating the bylaws in this case specifically provided the declaration controls in the event of any conflict and this bylaw is consistent with the declaration’s role as “the association’s ‘constitution’”
• applying the doctrine of the last preceding antecedent to contract 4 interpretation
• applying general rule of contracts to construe bylaws of condominium association

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).