Williams v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““But it were needless to cite all the cases referred to in argument ; they will all be found to have turned very much upon their own particular circumstances, and they will all manifest the solicitude of the courts to attain, by the adoption or rejection of the supposed rule in question, or other rules, as circumstances might require, the purpose and intention of the testator.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Lotzgesell v. Cydell