Category: C

When the question is as to the gain of two persons, the cause of him who is in possession is the better. Dig. 50, 17, 126.

Additional; heaping up; Increasing; forming an aggregate. The word signifies that two things are to be added together, instead of one being a repetition or in substitution of the other. People v. Superior Court, 10 Wend. (N. Y.) 285; Regina v. Eastern Archipelago Co., 18 Eng. Law & Eq. 183.

Where two things repugnant to each other are found in a will, the last shall stand. Co. Litt. 1126; Shep. Touch. 451; Broom, Max. 5S3.

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When two rights meet in one person, it is the same as if they were in two persons.

This term is given to the additional evidence or the corroborating evidence for a certain point in a trial.

a Latin phrase that means with a grain of salt.

(With a grain of salt) With allowance for exaggeration.

When there is a disagreement in the substance, it appears that there is no acceptance. Gardner v. Lane, 12 Allen (Mass.) 44.

Dig. 34, 5, 24. Where an ambiguous, or even an erroneous, expression occurs in a will, it should be construed liberally, and in accordance with the testator’s probable meaning. Broom,Max. 568.