Now, there is but one case in which it appears to us that this sort of evidence of intention can properly be admitted, and that is, where the meaning of the testator's words is neither ambiguous nor obscure, and where the devise is on the face of it perfect... The Solicitors' Journal & Reporter - Página 1851871Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Great Britain. Court of Exchequer, Roger Meeson, William Newland Welsby - 1840 - 752 páginas
...is, where the meaning of the testator's words is neither ambiguous nor obscure, and where the dense is on the face of it perfect and intelligible, but,...Thus, if a testator devise his manor of S. to AB, and has two manors of North S. and South S., it being clear he means to devise one only, whereas both are... | |
| 1842 - 508 páginas
...evidence of intention can properly be admitted, and that is where the meaning of the testator's words is neither ambiguous nor obscure, and where the devise...Thus if a testator devise his manor of S. to AB, and has two manors of North S. and South S., it being clear he means to devise one only, whereas both are... | |
| 1842 - 546 páginas
...evidence of intention can properly be admitted, and that is where the meaning of the testator's words is neither ambiguous nor obscure, and where the devise...Thus if a testator devise his manor of S. to AB, and has two manors of North S. and South S., it being clear he means to devise one only, whereas both are... | |
| Charles Greenstreet Addison - 1847 - 988 páginas
...instrument may also, on the face of it, be perfectly intelligible, and free from all doubt and obscurity, but from some of the circumstances admitted in proof, an ambiguity arises, as to which of two or more things, or which of two or more persons, each answering the words of the writing, the parties... | |
| John Pitt Taylor - 1848 - 756 páginas
...evidence of intention can properly be admitted, and that is, where the meaning of the testator's words is neither ambiguous nor obscure, and where the devise...is on the face of it perfect and intelligible, but, (e) 1 Dru. & War. 368. (f) Shore n. Wilson, 9 Cl. & Fin. 569. See 7 & 8 Viet., c. 45, § 2, cited ante,... | |
| Georgia. Supreme Court - 1848 - 712 páginas
...exception, and that is, where tho meaning of the testator's words is neither obscure nor ambiguous, and where the devise is on the face of it perfect and intelligible, but from some circumstance admitted in proof, an ambiguity arises as to which of two or more thing,s, or which of... | |
| Great Britain. Court of Chancery, Sir Edward Ebenezer Kay - 1854 - 852 páginas
...(&), " Evidence of intention can properly be admitted where the meaning of the testator's words is neither ambiguous nor obscure, and where the devise...express. Thus, if a testator devise his manor of S. to A. /?., and has two manors of North 8. and South S., it being clear he means to devise one only, whereas... | |
| Owen Davies Tudor - 1856 - 942 páginas
...evidence of intention can properly be admitted, and that is where the meaning of the testator's words is neither ambiguous nor obscure, and where the devise...express. Thus, if a testator devise his manor of S. to AB(i), and has two manors of North S. and South S., it being clear he means to devise (4) See Dougliu... | |
| John Louis Taylor Sneed, Tennessee. Supreme Court - 1857 - 812 páginas
...admitted, and that is, where the meaning of the testator's words is neither ambiguous nor obscure, and when the devise is on the face of it perfect and intelligible,...words in the will) the testator intended to express. See also, 1 Greenleaf's Ev., § 289, et seq. And this brings us to the real, and only point of difficulty... | |
| Sir James Wigram, William Knox Wigram - 1858 - 246 páginas
...evidence of intention can properly be admitted, and that is, where the meaning of the testator's words is neither ambiguous nor obscure, and where the devise...Thus, if a testator devise his manor of S. to AB, and has two manors of North S. and South S., it being clear he means to devise one only, whereas both are... | |
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