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Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

Ordinarily excludes the day to which it relates. But this construction must yield to the manifest intention of the parties to a lease or other contract.

Kendall V. Kingsley, 120 Mass. 94.

Where the charter of a corporation was limited to continue " until the first day of January," it was held that the word " until " was exclusive, and that the charter expired with December 31.

People v. Walker, 17 N. Y. 502.