LEGAL PHRASEOLOGY
IMPORTANT RULE CHANGED (Rec. 10 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 25. Lord Simon, with four other judges concurring, decided in the House of Lords that the phrase in a will, “All the money whereof I die possessed,” included investments, thus changing the rule of law enforced since 1725, under which money is regarded as meaning only cash. “It is time the popular meaning prevailed over the legal,” Lord Simon said.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25134, 27 January 1943, Page 2
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