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"We should not be too strict in construing instruments or contracts generally drawn up on the spur of the moment."
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"One would wonder, when a word was in use two hundred years ago, that there should remain now any doubt what it is."
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Judicial interpretation is the way in which the judiciary construes the law, particularly constitutional documents, legislation and frequently used vocabulary. This is an important issue in some common law jurisdictions such as the United States, Australia and Canada, because the supreme courts of those nations can overturn laws made by their legislatures via a process called judicial review.
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"We can judge of the intent of the parties only by their words."
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"I should regret to place a narrowing construction upon rules intended to remove expense and delay."
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"If once we go upon niceties of construction, we shall not know where to stop. For one nicety is made a foundation for another; and that other for a third; and so on, without end."
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"Where the law is known, and clear, though it be inequitable and inconvenient, the Judges must determine as the law is, without regarding the unequitableness or inconveniency, but where the law is doubtful and not clear, the Judges ought to interpret the law to be as is most consonant to equity, and least inconvenient."
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"It is the duty of Courts of Justice to give that construction which most fairly carries out the manifest purpose."
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