· 12/15/1823
Rapier v. Holland
Citations
- 1 Minor 176
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- “The Court is to attempt to avoid an interpretation that leaves a portion of the contract ‘useless, inexplicable, inoperative, void, insignificant, meaningless, superfluous, or achieves a weird and whimsical result.’ ”
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Judges: Lipscomb
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