 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1867 - 652 pages
...established rule of construction, as laid down in Wigram on the Interpretation of Wills, 15, that " a testator is always presumed to use the words, in...which he expresses himself, according to their strict acceptation, unless from the context of the will it appears that he has used them in a different sense... | |
 | Theophilus Parsons - Average - 1868 - 702 pages
...treatise upon the admission of extrinsic evidence in aid of the interpretation of wills is, that, " a testator is always presumed to use the words in...their strict and primary acceptation, unless from the substance of the will it appears that he used them in a different sense, in which case the sense in... | |
 | Simon Greenleaf - Evidence (Law) - 1876 - 762 pages
...in seven propositions, as the result both of principle and authority, and are thus expressed : "I. A testator is always presumed to use the words, in which he expresses himself .according totheirstrict and primary acceptation, unless, from the context of the will, it appears that he has... | |
 | Austin Abbott - Action and defenses - 1880 - 928 pages
...unambiguous, but to interpret the extrinsic objects." Wigram'e seven rules are (\\ igr. Ex. Ev.): " I. A testator is always presumed to use the words in...according to their strict and primary acceptation, unless Irom the context of the will it appears that he has used them in a different sense; in which case the... | |
 | North Carolina. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 708 pages
...Owen v. Owen, Busb. Kq., 124. It is also a well established rule of construction that a testator is presumed to use the words in which he expresses himself,...strict and primary acceptation, unless from the context it appears that he uses them in a different sense: in which case, the sense in which he thus appears... | |
 | John Pitt Taylor - Evidence (Law) - 1887 - 1034 pages
...seven propositions, as the result both of principle and authority, and are thus expressed: — "I. A testator is always presumed to use the words, in which he express himself, according to their strict and primary acceptation, unless from the. context of the... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 776 pages
...propositions as the result both of principle and authority, of which the two first are as follows : " I. A testator is always presumed to use the words in...which he expresses himself according to their strict VOL. vin. — 25 i^ and primary acceptation, unless from the context of the Term will it appears that... | |
 | Theophilus Parsons - Contracts - 1893 - 974 pages
...treatise upon the admission of extrinsic evidence in aid of the interpretation of wills, is that, " A testator is always presumed to use the words in...which he expresses himself, according to their strict »ud primary acceptation, unless from the substance of the will it appears that he used them in a different... | |
| |
A testator is always presumed to use the words in which he expresses himself, according to their strict and primary acceptation, unless, from the context of the will, it appears that he has used them in a different sense ; in which case, the sense in... 
