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PART VI TESTAMENTARY SUCCESSION · CHAPTER VI.—Of the construction of Wills

Section 77: When words may be supplied

The Indian Succession Act, 1925

Where any word material to the full expression of the meaning has been omitted, it may be supplied by the context.

Illustration

The testator gives a legacy of “five hundred” to his daughter A and a legacy of “five hundred rupees” to his daughter B. A will take a legacy of five hundred rupees.