What is the test for a court to interpret an agreement?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from Swift Current (City) v. Canadian Union of Public Employees, Local 183 et al., 1991 CanLII 7652 (SK QB):
A court should strive for harmony when interpreting an agreement. As was said by Lord Davey in North Eastern Railway v. Hastings, [1900] A.C. 260, at p. 267: "... [T]hat the deed must be read as a whole in order to ascertain the true meaning of the several clauses, and that the words of each clause should be so interpreted as to bring them into harmony with the other provisions of the deed if that interpretation does no violence to the meaning of which they are naturally susceptible ..."
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