context: The Financing Order follows the same structure as countless other orders and contracts, i.e., a more specific provision follows the more general provision. A court does not violate contract interpretation principles simply because it finds a more detailed provision to control the outcome over a general provision that has panoptic applicability.
citation_a.signal: see also
citation_a.identifier: 3 F.3d 11, 17
citation_a.parenthetical: noting the rule of contract interpretation that the specific controls the general
citation_a.sentence: See Parkhurst v. Gibson, 133 N.H. 57, 63, 573 A.2d 454 (1990) (noting the accepted interpretive rule that a general, preliminary clause does not take priority over specific provisions of a contract); 11 Richard A. Lord, Williston on Contracts § 32:10 (4th ed. 1999) (“Where general and specific clauses conflict, the specific clause governs the meaning of the contract.”); see also Lawson v. FDIC, 3 F.3d 11, 17 (1st Cir.2003) (noting the rule of contract interpretation that the specific controls the general).
citation_b.signal: see
citation_b.identifier: 450 F.3d 36, 36
citation_b.parenthetical: interpreting a stipulation allowing a chapter 11 debtor to retain a portion of one of its businesses and finding the paragraph that generally characterized the business the debtor was to retain did not control because the paragraphs that followed more precisely explained what fit within the general rubric and specified the parties' rights
citation_b.sentence: See New Seabury, 450 F.3d at 36 (interpreting a stipulation allowing a chapter 11 debtor to retain a portion of one of its businesses and finding the paragraph that generally characterized the business the debtor was to retain did not control because the paragraphs that followed more precisely explained what fit within the general rubric and specified the parties’ rights).