| adv. | 1. | ||||
| 1. | At what time; - used interrogatively. | ||||
| 2. | At what time; at, during, or after the time that; at or just after, the moment that; - used relatively. | ||||
| 3. | While; whereas; although; - used in the manner of a conjunction to introduce a dependent adverbial sentence or clause, having a causal, conditional, or adversative relation to the principal proposition; | ||||
| 4. | Which time; then; - used elliptically as a noun.
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| Adv. | 1. | when - as soon as; "once we are home, we can rest" Synonyms: once |
WHEN. At which time, in wills, standing by itself unqualified and
unexplained, this is a word of condition denoting the time at which the gift
is to continence. 6 Ves. 243; 2 Meriv. 286.
2. The context of a will may show that the word when is to be applied
to the possession only, not to the vesting of a legacy; but to justify this
construction, there must be circumstances, or other expressions in the will,
showing such to have been the testator's intent. 7 Ves. 422; 9 Ves. 230
Coop. 145; 11 Ves. 489; 3; Bro. C. C. 471. For the effect of the word when
in contracts and in wills in the French law, see 6 Toull. n. 520.
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