What is the test for whether a promise is a qualified promise or a promise with exceptions?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Canadian Hardwoods Ltd. v. Insurance Co. of North America et al., 1970 CanLII 948 (ON SC):
4. Whether a promise is a promise with exceptions or whether it is a qualified promise is in every case a question of construction of the instrument as a whole : see per Palles C.B. in Gorman v. Hand-in-Hand Insurance Co., I.R. 11 C.L. 224.
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