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A word of futurity, always used in statutes and legal documents asindicative of future time, excluding both the present and the past. Chapman v. Holmes,10 N. J. Law, 20; Tremont & S. Mills v. Lowell, 105 Mass. 205. 42 X. E. 1134; Dobbinsv. Cragin, 50 N. .T. Eq. 040, 23 Atl. 172; Thomas v. Mueller, 100 111. 43.

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