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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... This is the case of equivocation , " as it is called by Lord Bacon , and it is exempli- fied by a devise " to John Cluer , of Calcot , " when there are two 66 persons who answer that description ; or a devise of CHARLES A. GRAVES . 195.
... This is the case of equivocation , " as it is called by Lord Bacon , and it is exempli- fied by a devise " to John Cluer , of Calcot , " when there are two 66 persons who answer that description ; or a devise of CHARLES A. GRAVES . 195.
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... equivocation ? The answer is that such evidence is regarded as peculiarly dangerous , and is there- fore confined , for reasons of policy , to that one case in which the words of the will describe well , but equally well , two or more ...
... equivocation ? The answer is that such evidence is regarded as peculiarly dangerous , and is there- fore confined , for reasons of policy , to that one case in which the words of the will describe well , but equally well , two or more ...
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... equivocation , 1 For an elaborate statement of the objections to declarations of intention in aid of the interpretation of wills see 2 Wharton Evid . , ยง 992 . 2 It should be borne in mind that the " declarations of intention ...
... equivocation , 1 For an elaborate statement of the objections to declarations of intention in aid of the interpretation of wills see 2 Wharton Evid . , ยง 992 . 2 It should be borne in mind that the " declarations of intention ...
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... equivocation ) , and his inter- pretation accorded precisely with what he found there , though he protested earnestly that he had laid the draft " entirely out of view . ' In the case of " equivocation , " however , whatever 99 L facts ...
... equivocation ) , and his inter- pretation accorded precisely with what he found there , though he protested earnestly that he had laid the draft " entirely out of view . ' In the case of " equivocation , " however , whatever 99 L facts ...
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... equivocation the language of the will must satisfy these two conditions : 1. The words of the will must be descriptive of concrete ob- 1 In 1 Jarman , Wills ( 433 ) , the opinion is expressed that though a case of equivocation should ...
... equivocation the language of the will must satisfy these two conditions : 1. The words of the will must be descriptive of concrete ob- 1 In 1 Jarman , Wills ( 433 ) , the opinion is expressed that though a case of equivocation should ...
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