 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...  The New South Wales Law Reports, 1880-1900 - Page 391by New South Wales. Supreme Court - 1898Full view - About this book
 | Great Britain. Court of Exchequer, Roger Meeson, William Newland Welsby - Law reports, digests, etc - 1840 - 752 pages
...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,...the two or more things, or which of the two or more persons (each answering the words in the will), the testator intended to express. Thus, if a testator... | |
 | Law - 1842 - 508 pages
...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,...the two or more things, or which of the two or more persons (each answering the words in the will), the testator intended to express. " Thus if a testator... | |
 | Law - 1842 - 546 pages
...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,...the two or more things, or which of the two or more persons (each answering the words in the will), the testator intended to express. " Thus if a testator... | |
 | Charles Greenstreet Addison - Contracts - 1847 - 988 pages
...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... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1848 - 712 pages
...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... | |
 | John Pitt Taylor - Evidence (Law) - 1848 - 756 pages
...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, ยง 2, cited ante,... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Chancery, Sir Edward Ebenezer Kay - Equity - 1854 - 852 pages
...properly be admitted 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;...the two or more things, or which of the two or more persons (each answering the words in the will) the testator intended to express. Thus, if a testator... | |
 | Owen Davies Tudor - Conveyancing - 1856 - 942 pages
...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,...the two or more things, or which of the two or more persons (each answering the words in the will), the testator intended to express. Thus, if a testator... | |
 | John Louis Taylor Sneed, Tennessee. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1857 - 812 pages
...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...the two or more things, or which of the two or more persons, (each answering the words in the will) the testator intended to express. See also, 1 Greenleaf's... | |
 | John Pitt Taylor - Evidence (Law) - 1858 - 934 pages
...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,...the two or more things, or which of the two or more persons (each answering the words in the will), the testator intended to express. Thus, if a testator... | |
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