Interpretation of Documents

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1. When a general provision and a particular provision are inconsistent, which ordinarily controls under section 13?
2. An instrument has inconsistent handwritten and printed portions. What does section 16 provide?
3. Where an instrument has several provisions, what approach does section 12 prefer if possible?
4. A technical term is shown to have a special trade meaning, and the parties used and understood it in that sense. Must t…
5. A relevant old writing is difficult to decipher and uses a language the court does not understand. What does section 17…
6. Seller intends an ambiguous expression in one sense but knows Buyer understands it in another. Their different intended…
7. A document was executed in a place where a term has a particular legal meaning. The parties clearly intended a differen…
8. Explain the rules for harmonizing several provisions and resolving inconsistent general, particular, written and printe…
9. How may context, technical meaning and skilled interpretation aid construction of a writing?
10. State the qualified interpretive rules in sections 18 and 19 for competing constructions.
11. Under Rule 130, Section 14, may the situation of the subject property when an instrument was made aid proper constructi…
12. What is Section 20’s express interpretive aid for determining an instrument’s true character?