sealed instrument
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 75 U.S. 276 - Hudson Canal Co. v. Pennsylvania Coal Co. · 1868Most cited · 92 citing opinions
construction limit
Courts of law cannot incorporate into a sealed instrument what the parties left out of it, even though the omission was occasioned by the clearest mistake; nor can they reject what the parties inserted, unless it be repugnant to some other part of the instrument
How often courts cite the case defining “sealed instrument”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “sealed instrument” — 92 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.