 | New York (State). Supreme Court. Appellate Division - Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 1080 pages
...meaning of the words in this trust deed when the trust was created, and a testator (and so of a grantor) is always presumed to use the words in which he expresses...according to their strict and primary acceptation, iinless, from the context of the. instrument, it appears that he has used them in a different sense.... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 1544 pages
...terms in his admirable work on the reception of parol evidence. Proposition the first is, that the testator is always presumed to use the words in which...strict and primary acceptation, unless from the context it appears that he used them in a different sense, in which sense they are to be construed. I do not... | |
 | Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead - Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 1282 pages
...terms in his admirable work on the reception of parol evidence. Proposition the first is, that the testator is always presumed to use the words in which...strict and primary acceptation, unless from the context it appears that he used them in a different sense, in which sense they are to be construed. I do not... | |
 | Franklin A. Beecher - Wills - 1911 - 492 pages
...for the interpretation of wills laid down by Sir J. Wigram in his able treatise are as follows : I. A testator is always presumed to use the words, in which he expressed himself, according to their strict and primary acceptation, unless from the context of the... | |
 | James Schouler - Executors and administrators - 1923 - 868 pages
...Seven propositions are applicable to the construction of wills. Wigram on Wills, pi. 12-19.— (I.) A testator is always presumed to use the words in which he expresses himself, accord'ng to their strict and primary exceptance, unless, from the context of the will, it appears... | |
 | Law - 1894 - 586 pages
...classes. In this class of cases the courts following the primary rule in the interpretation of wills, that "a testator is always presumed to use the words in...according to their strict and primary acceptation," hold that he intended to dispose only of his own interest in the property, "unless from the context... | |
 | Law - 1885 - 548 pages
...of the property ; are all efficient to afford additional light in which to read the will.3 Although a testator is always presumed to use the words in...expresses himself according to their strict and primary acceptations, a liberal construction is always accorded them, and if a plain and definite purpose is... | |
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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... 
