Holmes v. MacKie

The evidence that the mission society is usually called the Missionary Society by members of the Advent faith was competent. Whom the will referred to, was the ultimate inquiry. The society went by a certain name. It was not its name in law, but it was its name in fact, in the sense that it was called by that name. It is not essential that it itself used the name. It was an alias, as a name it was known by. The name was a description that fitted. No other institution answered to it. If the testator thus used the name in the will, it was the same as though he used its legal name. It would be…