Report of the First[-thirty-first] Annual Meeting of the Virginia State Bar Association, Volume 6Virginia State Bar Association, 1893 - Bar associations |
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Page 68
... ambiguity in our written law would disappear if the draughts- man would confine himself to short sentences and be lavish with his periods . Full stops in a statute are like shade trees along a hot and dusty road . When plentiful enough ...
... ambiguity in our written law would disappear if the draughts- man would confine himself to short sentences and be lavish with his periods . Full stops in a statute are like shade trees along a hot and dusty road . When plentiful enough ...
Page 192
... ambiguous expressions the situation of the parties may very properly be taken into view . The ties which connect the testator with his legatees ; the affec- tion subsisting between them ; the motives which may reasonably be supposed to ...
... ambiguous expressions the situation of the parties may very properly be taken into view . The ties which connect the testator with his legatees ; the affec- tion subsisting between them ; the motives which may reasonably be supposed to ...
Page 197
... ambiguity arises in the interpretation of a will by the existence of two persons or objects which answer the description given by the testator , that he was ignorant of the fact , or did not remember that the two were known and called ...
... ambiguity arises in the interpretation of a will by the existence of two persons or objects which answer the description given by the testator , that he was ignorant of the fact , or did not remember that the two were known and called ...
Page 202
... ambiguity which may be removed by the declarations of the testator is " when there are two persons or things equally an- swering the description . " And in Senger v . Senger , 81 Va . , 687 , 695 , Judge Richardson thus summarizes the ...
... ambiguity which may be removed by the declarations of the testator is " when there are two persons or things equally an- swering the description . " And in Senger v . Senger , 81 Va . , 687 , 695 , Judge Richardson thus summarizes the ...
Page 203
... ambiguous expressions in a will , not even if " the words stand in æquilibrio , and are so doubt- ful that they may be taken one way or the other . " Nor are they allowed to explain generic terms , to show the extent of their meaning as ...
... ambiguous expressions in a will , not even if " the words stand in æquilibrio , and are so doubt- ful that they may be taken one way or the other . " Nor are they allowed to explain generic terms , to show the extent of their meaning as ...
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