Effects

A word of extensive import, frequently used in wills as a synonym for personal estate. In Hogan v., Jackson, 1 Cowp. 304 (1774), Lord Mansfield considered it synonymous with " worldly substance," which means whatever can be turned to value, and therefore that " real and personal effects " means all a man's property. - ' Mount Hermon Boys' School v. Gill, 145 Mass. 146 (1887), Knowlton, J. » Powell V. Board of Education, 97 IlL 375 (1881). » 1 Bl. Com. 450. < Laws of Prov. of Penn., Ch. CXU (1682): Linn, 142. s Maize u State, 4 Ind. 348 (1863). In admiralty, includes Bhips.^ I In a will, may include any personalty whatever, and even realty. ^ Construed to include land where it can be collected from the will that such was the testator's intention.^ Used indefinitely in a will, but, in connection with something particular and certain, is limited by association to other things of a like kind. From the subjectmatter, intention of something else may be implied; and that may be larger or less.*