COURT OF APPEAL. 22 OCTOBER 1917. MM. Yahia Ibrahim Pasha (Pres.); Muhammad Magdy Pasha, Mustafa Fathy Bey (JJ.). DIRAN MANGASSERIAN v. DAME ARSINOHE BIDIDIMIAN. Jurisdiction of Native Tribunals, Restrictions on—Dowry—Contracts—Construction. (Art. 16, Organic Decree.) Agreements must be construed according to the intention of the parties thereto, whatever be the terms used by them. Thus, an agreement under which a person handed to his son-in-law a sum of a money to be employed to the profit of his daughter, was held to involve no question of personal statute, although such sum was wrongly described as dowry (dot) in the agreement drawn up by the parties. Consequently, the Native Tribunals were held to have jurisdiction to try a claim for the restitution of the sum in question.