Don contracts with mark to paint his house for $5,000 by the end of april. if the terms of their contract are clear and unambiguous, but a dispute arises, a court may not consider extrinsic evidence —any evidence not contained in the contract itself—when interpreting the document. this is known as

The Plain Meaning Rule.

The plain meaning rule states that when the language is unambiguous and clear, you must use the actual language of the contract and not any outside evidence when determining how the dispute is resolved.

reducing the scale of the market for a new product.

two years ago, when picking flowers in the mountains back of yosemite valley, i found a book. it was blotted and storm-beaten; all of its outer pages were mealy and crumbly. the paper seemed to dissolve like the snow beneath which it had been buried, however; many of the inner pages were well preserved. and although all were more or less stained and torn, whole chapters were easily readable. this is the condition of the great open book of yosemite glaciers today; its granite pages have been torn and blurred by the same storms that wasted the castaway book.

two years ago, when picking flowers in the mountains back of yosemite valley; i found a book. it was blotted and storm-beaten, all of its outer pages were mealy and crumbly. the paper seemed to dissolve like the snow beneath which it had been buried, however, many of the inner pages were well preserved. and although all were more or less stained and torn; whole chapters were easily readable. this is the condition of the great open book of yosemite glaciers today, its granite pages have been torn and blurred by the same storms that wasted the castaway book.