Nolo's Plain-English Law Dictionary
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- Four Corners Of An Instrument
- The principle that a document's meaning should be derived from the document itself, without reference to anything outside of the document (extrinsic evidence), such as the circumstances surrounding its writing or the history of the party signing it.
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