Construction of Deeds and Statutes 5th Edition

CONTENTS:

DEEDS AND OTHER INSTRUMENTS: The nature of a deed; alterations and erasures; general rules of interpretation; ambiguities and equivocations; some miscellaneous rules; parol evidence and written documents; user under ancient documents; rules as to time and date; names and misdescriptions; the individual parts of a deed; marriage, children, issue.

STATUTES: The nature of a statute; general rules of construction; omissions; retrospective effect of statutes; aids to construction; repeals and penal acts; enabling acts; private acts; presumptions; delegated legislation; methods of construction.