Brown v. Manter
Superior Court of New Hampshire
Trespass, quare clausum fregit. On the trial in tbe Court of Common Pleas, tbe plaintiff offered evidence of bis title to tbe premises, under tbe general issue, and it was then agreed by the parties that tbe locus in quo was part of lot No. 68, in the second part of tbe second division, of lots in Chester, laid out to tbe original right of Philemon Blake.
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Trespass, quare clausum fregit. On the trial in tbe Court of Common Pleas, tbe plaintiff offered evidence of bis title to tbe premises, under tbe general issue, and it was then agreed by the parties that tbe locus in quo was part of lot No. 68, in the second part of tbe second division, of lots in Chester, laid out to tbe original right of Philemon Blake. Tbe defendant then introduced a copy of a deed from Blake to Benjamin Hills, dated on the 14th day of April, 1725, including the premises, and, also, copies of various intermediate conveyances between that year and the year 1773, at which…
1Opinion of the CourtGilchrist, C. J.
The numerous decisions to be found in the books both in the early and modern days of the common law, relating to the construction of deeds, and to the effect to be given to the various parts of which they are usually composed, have established certain rules about which there is no controversy. The courts are anxious so to construe a deed as to give *533effect to the intent of the parties, if it do not contravene any fundamental rules of the law; and the construction is to be made upon the entire deed. Webster v. Atkinson, 4 N. H. Rep. 21; Clanrickard v. Sidney, Hob. 277. And “by the word intent,…
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