 | Law - 1843 - 530 pages
...the jury to see whether or not the admission of the parol evidence in any manner, will trench upon the rule that parol evidence is not admissible to vary or contradict written contracts or papers. Ib. 12. (Declarations of plaintiff.) As a general rule, and upon general... | |
 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - Law reports, digests, etc - 1891 - 700 pages
...circumstances of the case and as will lead to the belief that it is genuine. Id 365 15. Writing. — Parol evidence is not admissible to vary or contradict the terms of a written instrument, and evidence of fraudulent misEVIDENCE— Continued. PAGE. representation as to its effect to induce... | |
 | Florida. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 970 pages
...what the words "reasonable time to cut the red cedar timber" meant. It is a familiar and well settled rule that parol evidence is not admissible to vary or contradict the terms of a written instrument, and that a written contract, which :s intelligible on its face, must control, the parties understanding... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1879 - 756 pages
...days of hard swearing, when every man is a competent witness to swear for himself in his own case, the rule that parol evidence is not admissible to vary or contradict written contracts, should not be relaxed. There was no error in sustaining the motion to strike the... | |
 | Asa Kinne - Courts - 1852 - 736 pages
...541. Elwell v. Lessley, 2 Halst. Rep., 349. The case of receipts is exempt from the application of the rule, that parol evidence is not admissible to vary or contradict a written agreement ; for a receipt is not evidence of a contract, but of payment ; and it has always... | |
 | Patent laws and legislation - 1854 - 868 pages
...and the jury to see whether or not the admission of the parol evidence in any manner will trench upon the rule, that parol evidence is not admissible to vary or contradict written contracts or papers. The next exception is to the admission of the evidence of William A. Stimpson,... | |
 | Charles Sidney Whitman - Copyright - 1871 - 736 pages
...papers, to enable the court and jury to see whether the admission of parol evidence will trench upon the rule that parol evidence is not admissible to vary or contradict written contracts or papers. (Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad Company v. Stimson, 14 Pet., 461.)... | |
 | Charles Sidney Whitman - Copyright - 1871 - 734 pages
...papers, to enable the court and jury to see whether the admission of parol evidence will trench upon the rule that parol evidence is not admissible to vary or contradict written contracts or papers. (Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad Company v. Stimson, 14 Pet., 461.)... | |
 | Charles Sidney Whitman - Copyright - 1878 - 1224 pages
...the jury to see whether or not the admission of the parol evidence, in any manner, will trench upon the rule that parol evidence is not admissible to vary or contradict written contracts or papers. Statement of the case. This is, however, but !i general rule, and admits... | |
 | Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Abram Daniel Smith, Philip Loring Spooner, Obadiah Milton Conover, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frderick C. Seibold - Law reports, digests, etc - 1880 - 764 pages
...another, if the contract does not show that he acts as such agent, the principal is not bound, and parol evidence is not admissible to vary or contradict the terms of the contract by showing the agency. Stackpole v. Arnold, 11 Mass., 27; 20 Wend., 431; 4 Duer, 29; Thompson... | |
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Cavanaugh and the corporation was signed, and in this connection our attention is called to the rule that parol evidence is not admissible to vary or contradict the terms of a written instrument; but this rule has no application in a criminal case. 
