Cypres
[saipris]
Definition
(n.) A rule for construing written instruments so as to conform as nearly to the intention of the parties as is consistent with law.
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Examples
- Houston lived some distance from the town and generally went home late at night, having to pass through a dark cypress swamp over a corduroy road. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Bayou Baxter, as it reaches lower land, begins to spread out and disappears entirely in a cypress swamp before it reaches the Macon. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- We placed his remains under a cypress, the upright mountain being scooped out to receive them. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- No, you never saw it; but you recognize the nature of these trees, this foliage--the cypress, the willow, the yew. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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