 ... sensible with reference to extrinsic circumstances, it is an inflexible rule of construction that the words of the will shall be interpreted in their strict and primary sense and in no other, although they may be capable of some popular or secondary...  Law of Wills, Executors and Administrators - Page 1058by James Schouler - 1923 - 3269 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir James Wigram - Evidence (Law) - 1835 - 182 pages
...primary sense, and where his words so interpreted are sensible with reference to extrinsic circumstances, it is an inflexible rule of construction, that the...them in such popular or secondary sense be tendered .. 15—28 Two exceptions to this Proposition stated 27—28 tor has used the words in which he has... | |
 | Great Britain. Courts - Ecclesiastical law - 1845 - 750 pages
...primary sense, and where his words so interpreted are sensible with reference to extrinsic circumstances, it is an inflexible rule of construction, that the...in such popular or secondary sense be tendered."* Now to apply this doctrine to the present case. The strict and primary sense of the word " codicil... | |
 | George Spence - Civil procedure - 1846 - 708 pages
...primary sense, and where his words so interpreted are sensible with reference to extrinsic circumstances, it is an inflexible rule of construction, that the...them in such popular or secondary sense be tendered. "PROPOSITION III. — Where there is nothing in the context of a will, from which it is apparent that... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1850 - 660 pages
...sense, and where his words, so interpreted, are sensible with reference to extrinsic circumstances, it is an inflexible rule of construction, that the...them, in such popular or secondary sense, be tendered. Ubi. Supra. The strict and primary sense of the words used in the bequest to Mrs. Williams, gives her... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1850 - 688 pages
...reference to extrinsic circumstances, it is an inflexible rule of construction, that the words of th« will shall be interpreted in their strict and primary sense, and in no other, although they may b0 capable of some popular or secondary interpretation, and although the most conclusive evidence of... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Edward Jordan Dimock, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Louis J. Rezzemini, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - Law reports, digests, etc - 1850 - 614 pages
...used appropriately and according to their strict primary signification. In such case, says Mr. Wigram, it is an inflexible rule of construction, that the words of the will, if sensible, in reference to extrinsic circumstances, shall be interpreted in their strict and primary... | |
 | Louisiana. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1851 - 838 pages
...sense, and where his words so interpreted are. sensible, with reference to extrinsic circumstances, it is an inflexible rule of construction that the words of the will shall be interpreted in their primary sense, and in no other, although they may be capable of some popular, or secondary interpretation,... | |
 | Ireland. High Court of Chancery - Law reports, digests, etc - 1855 - 736 pages
...sense, and where his " words, so interpreted, are aensible, with reference to extrinsic cir" cumstances, it is an inflexible rule of construction, that the...secondary interpretation, and although the most conclusive evi" dence of intention to use them in such popular or secondary sense "be tendered." Anne Dawson's... | |
 | William Wetmore Story - Contracts - 1856 - 848 pages
...primary sense, and where his words so interpreted are sensible with reference to extrinsic circumstances, it is an inflexible rule of construction, that the...or secondary interpretation, and although the most conelusive evidence of intention to use them in such popular or secondary sense be tendered. " Proposition... | |
 | John Pitt Taylor - Evidence (Law) - 1858 - 934 pages
...primary sense, and where his words so interpreted are sensible with reference to extrinsic circumstances, it is an inflexible rule of construction, that the...them in such popular or secondary sense be tendered. 1 1 J Where there is nothing in the context of a will, § 1035. Bearing the above principles in mind,... | |
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