Osborne v. Clarkson’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““We think a restatement of the law found in § 237, 16 American Jurisprudence, at bottom p. 570, is a correct general declaration of the law of the construction of deeds. Said § 237 is as follows: “The modern and now widely accepted rule to determine the estate conveyed by a deed with inconsistent clauses has for its cardinal principle the proposition that if the intention of the parties is apparent from examination of the deed ‘from its four corners’ without regard to its technical and formal divisions, it will be given effect even though, in doing so, technical rules of construction will he violated. ” , _”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. McCuiston v. Rollman