Mooney v. Tolles

The will discloses no intention to attach any meaning to “lawful child or children”—the term generally used throughout the will—distinctive from “child or children” as employed once, apparently by inadvertence, in Article Ninth, and “children” appearing in Article Third.

“Child or children” manifestly refers and applies and is limited to those standing in the position of first degree. “Issue” is used in the Second, Sixth, and Ninth Articles of the will not in the restricted sense of children but in its primary, usual, and more comprehensive meaning as including descendants in every degree.…