What is the effect of the word “or their heirs” in English language?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from Hollis Estate (Re), 1968 CanLII 488 (SK QB):
In Re Whitehead; Whitehead v. Hemsley, supra, Sargant, J. had this to say at p. 302: “Apart from authority, there could, I think, be no doubt as to the proper answer to give to this question. The words ‘or their heirs’ are on their plain primary meaning substitutionary. They can be treated as words of limitation only by doing violence to the language by altering the word ‘or’ into ‘and.’ ”
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