Jackson v. Van Alen
This text of 1 Lock. Rev. Cas. 150 (Jackson v. Van Alen) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Court for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
The Court of Errors held, that although the construction of a grant is matter of law, yet its legal effect, (deducible from the terms used in it, or from matter subsequent which, as showing the sense of the parties, may authorize a larger or narrower construction so as to include or exclude particular premises,) is a matter of fact for a jury only to decide.
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