Teg-Paradigm Environmental, Inc. v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• observing that trade practice “may serve [a] lexicographic function in some cases”
• “One common way to incorporate extrinsic evidence is through an integration clause that expressly incorporates the extrinsic evidence.”
• plain and ordinary meaning can be “derived from the contract by a reasonably intelligent person acquainted with the contemporaneous circumstances”
• even where a contract is unambiguous, “evidence of trade practice may be useful in interpreting a contract term having an accepted industry meaning different from its ordinary meaning”
• \When the contract's language is unambiguous it must be given its 'plain and ordinary' meaning and the court may not look to extrinsic evidence to interpret its provisions.\
• “When the contract’s language is unambiguous it must be given its ‘plain and ordinary’ meaning and the court may not look to extrinsic evidence to interpret its provisions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).