Will—Interpretation—Testator’s Intent.—The primary purpose of all interpretations of wills is to ascertain the testator’s intent, as disclosed by the language he has used. Each case depends upon its own peculiar facts, and precedents have comparatively little value.

Id.—Construction oe Technical Words.—While technical words in a will are ordinarily to be.taken in their technical sense, they will not be so taken when it appears that they were used in another sense by a testator who drew his will without an acquaintance with the technical sense.

Id.—Gift Over of Legacies when Includes Devises.—Where in a holographic will the testator, after making various gifts of both personal and real property without using the technical word “devise” or “devisee” to distinguish the gift of. realty, speaks of the residue of his estate, after paying all the “bequests herein provided for,” and after disposing thereof, provides that “should any of the legatees herein provided for die before my death, then the legacy provided for him or her shall be divided equally among the residuary legatees,” such gift over of legacies will be construed to include both real and personal property.

Id.—Gift Over of Property Passing under Residuary Clause.—A will, after making various pecuniary bequests and specific dispositions of both real and personal property, gave certain land and specific personal property to the testator’s wife, and in the residuary clause, by separate individual provisions, disposed of the residue of the estate, which consisted of both real and personal property, in undivided one-quarter shares to his wife and three children. After so disposing of the residue the will provided that “should any of the legatees herein provided for die before my death, then the legacy provided for him or her -shall be divided equally among the residuary legatees.” Held, that upon the death of the wife prior to that of the testator, the property, whether real or personal, that would have passed to her under the will had she survived, including what would have passed under the residuary clause, did not lapse, but passed under the gift over to the three surviving residuary legatees.

Id.—Gift Over to Residuary Legatees as Class.—The gift over contained in such substitutionary clause is to the residuary legatees as a class.

Id.—When Gift Is to a Class.—In legal contemplation a gift to a class is a gift of an aggregate sum to a body of persons uncertain in number at the time of the gift, to be ascertained at a future time, who are all to take in equal or some other definite proportions, the share of each being dependent for its amount upon the ultimate ■ number.

Id.—Gift Over to Class for Purpose of Preventing Intestacy.—In seeking to ascertain whether a gift is to a class, the paramount consideration is the intent of the testator, as derived from the entire instrument. To this apparent intent, rules of construction must always yield. In such will the substitutionary clause, including the gifts over of the residue itself, was added for the very purpose of preventing intestacy as to any part of the estate.