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4.2-3 Contracts Are Not Made in Court

Revised to January 1, 2008 (modified September 28, 2012)

It is not your function to remake the contract or to change the terms of the contract. You must determine the intent of the parties from the contract the parties themselves made and apply the terms of that contract that the parties in fact made.

Authority

Bank of Boston Connecticut v. Schlesinger, 220 Conn. 152, 159 (1991); Barnard v. Barnard, 214 Conn. 99, 110 (1990); Jay Realty, Inc. v. Ahearn Development Corp., 189 Conn. 52, 55 (1983).