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How a deed should be interpreted

How an arbitration clause should be interpreted

How courts should interpret documents

How the court should construe a document which is framed in such a way that there is an element of obscurity

How the rules of voluntary associations should be interpreted

Need for words in documents to be given their ordinary meaning

The approach to interpretation where a document contains conflicting clauses

The cardinal presumption in the interpretation of documents

The general principle of interpretation of non-stautory documents

The general rule of construction in all written documents

The principle of construction where words are clear and unambiguous

The principle that a document should be given its ordinary meaning if the terms used are clear and unambiguous

The principle that a document should be read and construed as a whole

The principle that a document speaks for itself and the intention of the maker is to be discovered from the ordinary meaning ascribed to words in the document

The principle that a document that is clear does not require interpretation by the court

The principle that documents should be read as a whole and interpreted holistically

The principle that the contents of a document are to be taken and considered as a whole

The rule that where legal terms or words of well-known legal import are used by lawyers, especially by conveyancers, they will have their technical legal import

Whether a court can read extraneous words into a document

Whether precedents are a guide of interpretation

Whether the words of a document are to the construed together

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