Benevolent
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A term of wider and more indefinite meaning than "charitable," and generally held too indefinite to up- BENIGNAE FACIENDAE SUNT INTERpretatlones chartarum, ut res magis valeat quam pereat. Constructions of documents are to be made favorably, that the instrument may rather avail than perish. BENIGNE FACIENDAE SUNT INTERpretationes chartarum, ut res magis valeat quam pereat, et quaelibet concessio fortis. sime contra donatorem interpretanda est Liberal interpretations are to be made of deeds, so, that more may stand than fall, and every grant is to be taken most strongly against the grantor.
4 Mass. 134; 1 Sandf. Ch. (N. Y.) 258, 268; compare 275, 277.