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· 7/1/1857

President of the Lewiston Falls Bank v. Leonard

Citations

  • 43 Me. 144

How courts have described this case

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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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