Maui Land & Pineapple Company, Inc. v. Dillingham Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• “[A]n agreement should be construed as a whole and its meaning determined from the entire context and not from any particular word, phrase, or clause.”
• “[A]n agreement should be construed as a whole and its meaning deter mined from the entire context and not from any particular word, phrase, or clause”
• leases should be analyzed under principles of contract law
• “‘[A]n agreement should be construed as a whole and its meaning determined from the entire context and not from any particular word, phrase, or clause’” (quoting Ching v. Hawaiian Rests., Ltd., 50 Haw. 563, 565, 445 P.2d 370, 372 (1968))
• leases should be analyzed under principles of contract law
• leases should be analyzed under principles of contract law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).