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The use of this pronoun in a written instrument, in referring to a person whoseChristian name is designated therein by a mere initial, is not conclusive that the personreferred to is a male; it may lie shown by parol that the person intended is a female.Beruiaud v. Beecher, 71 Cal. 38, 11 Pac. 802.

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