· 7/1/1857
President of the Lewiston Falls Bank v. Leonard
Citations
- 43 Me. 144
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- finding majority rule \fully consistent with [Kentucky's] prior holdings adverse to contractual provisions tending to restrain the alienability of choses in action\
- finding majority rule \fully consistent with [Kentucky's] prior holdings adverse to contractual provisions tending to restrain the alienability of choses in action\
- “In the absence of ambiguity, a written instrument will be enforced strictly according to its terms, and a court will interpret the contract’s terms by assigning language its ordinary meaning and without resort to extrinsic evidence.”
- “[I]n the absence of ambiguity a written instrument will be enforced strictly according to its terms, and a court will interpret the contract’s terms by assigning language its ordinary meaning and without resort to extrinsic evidence.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
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Judges: Davis, Goodenow
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