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Coquitlam Lawyer: Need a Will? Interpreting Legacies/Gifts in a Will.
In the construction of wills, the court’s primary purpose is to determine the intention of the testator (aka the will-maker). It is well settled law that the intention of a testator must be gathered from the language of the entire will, construed as a whole. It is only when the testator’s intention cannot be arrived at with reasonable certainty, by giving the natural and ordinary meaning to the words which he/she has used, that resort is to be had to the rules of construction which have been developed by the courts in the interpretation of other wills