en virtud de
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Definitions from Case Law
From 233 U.S. 447 - Nadal v. May · 1914Most cited · 55 citing opinions
by virtue of, that if the wife had a claim it was outside the settlement, and those words would not describe it, even if, at the date of the will, the estate had still stood in the husband's name, where notoriously, and as she well knew, it had not stood for years.
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