Demonstratio

Lat. [from demonstrare, to point out, or show.] Demonstration; description, denomination or addition; the designation of a person or thing by words of addition, or reference; or what Lord Bacon calls " notes " and " s^s to call;"— as, "J. S. son and heir of G. S;" or, " clerk of such a court;*' or, " my close called Dale, in the parish of Hurst, in the county of Southampton."

Bacon's Max. 99, 100, 101.

To this head belong the following maxims, (qq. v.) Falsa demonstratio non nocet* False description does not injure. Pnn«Miia carp«ris t«llit erraram naml MlSy at rcritas aami Mis tallU ar^ raram damaiiatratia Bia. The presence of a thiug itself takes away the eJQfect of error in the name of it, and the truth of the name takes away the effect of error in the demonstration or description.

Bac. Max. 96, reg. 25.

Nan accipi dabaat rarba la dama Mstratianam falaam «■!• aampat Mat i« limitatianam raram. Words ought not to be taken to import a false demonstration, when they can be understood as words of true limitation.

Id. 59, reg. 13.

Demansiratio is defined in the civil law, "an accessory designation of persons or things by circumlocution."

1 Mackeld. Civ. Law. 169, § 175.

This occurred often in testaments; as *' Stichus, my slave, bom in my family," {Stichum servum meum vemam;) "Stichus my slave, whom I bought of Seius," {Stichum serwim quern a Seio emi.) Inst. 2.

20. 30.

And the rule respecting it was the same as in the common law: Falsa demonstratione legatum non perimitur. A legacy is not rendered null by a false description. Id. ibid.