Waters v. Ellis

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• favoring construction that conveys “the greatest estate that the terms of the instrument will permit”
• favoring construction that conveys “the greatest estate that the terms of the instrument will permit”
• “It is a recognized rule of construction that where there is a ‘necessary repugnance’ of clauses in a conveyance, the granting clause prevails over the other provisions of the deed.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).