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IMPLICATION

Intendment or inference, as distinguished from the actual expression of a thing in words. In a will, an estate may pass by mere implication, without any express words to direct its course. 2 BL Comm. 381.
An inference of something not directly declared, but arising from what is admitted or expressed.
In construing a will conjecture must not be taken for implication; but necessary implication means, not natural necessity, but so strong a probability of intention that an intention contrary to that which is imputed to the testator cannot be supposed. 1 Ves. A B. 466.”Implication” is also used in the sense of oInference;” 1 e., where the existence of an intention is inferred from acts not done for the sole purpose of communicating it but for some other purpose. Swee. Necessary implication. In construing a will, necessary implication means not natural necessity, but so strong a probability of intention that an intention contrary to that which is imputed to the testator cannot be supposed. Wilkinson v. Adam. 1 Ves. & B. 466; Gilbert v. Craddock, 67 Kan. 346, 72 Pac 869; Whitfield v. Garris. 134 N. C. 24, 45 S. B. 904.

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