Four Corners
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
The face of a writteninstrument. That whichis contained on the face of a deed (without any aid from the knowledge of the cireumstances under which it is made) is said to be within its four corners, because every deed is still supposed to be written on one entire skin, and so to have but four corners. To look at the four corners of an instrument is to examine the whole of it, so as to construe it as a whole, without reference to any ons part more than another, 2 Smith, Lead. Cas. 298.