Friday, March 13, 2009

Interpretation of contracts

Today’s Court of Appeal decision in  Seip & Associates Inc. v. Emmanuel Village Management Inc., 2009 ONCA 222 has a nice passage about interpreting contracts, and by extension statutes and other legal documents:

 

On basic principles of contractual interpretation, unless the context dictates otherwise, words in a single document should be presumed to bear the same meaning throughout.

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