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Necessary implication

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

In construing a will, necessary implication means not natural necessity, but so strong a probability of intention that an intention contrary to that which is imputed to the testator cannot be supposed.

Wilkinson v. Adam, 1 Ves. & B. 466; Gilbert v. Craddock, 67 Kan. 346, 72 Pac. 869; Whitfield v. Garris, 134 N. C. 24, 45 S. E. 904.