{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wills-and-administration-proceedings-northern-ireland-order-1994/article-26",
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  "legislation": "nisi/1994/1899",
  "legislation_title": "The Wills and Administration Proceedings (Northern Ireland) Order 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wills-and-administration-proceedings-northern-ireland-order-1994",
  "path": "article/26",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Construction of certain expressions",
  "text": "(1) Unless a contrary intention appears from the will, in a will—\n(a) “month” means calendar month;\n(b) “person” includes a corporation;\n(c) words in the singular include the plural, and words in the plural include the singular;\n(d) words importing the masculine gender include the feminine, and words importing the feminine gender include the masculine;\n(e) “land” includes—\n(i) buildings and other structures;\n(ii) land covered by water;\n(iii) any estate in land;\n(iv) any beneficial interest, of which the testator could dispose by will, in capital money;\n(v) if the testator dies owning no other property passing under a gift of land, any beneficial interest, of which the testator could dispose by will, in proceeds of sale under a trust for sale of land;\n(f) “realty” or any cognate expression includes—\n(i) any beneficial interest, of which the testator could dispose by will, in capital money arising from a legal or equitable fee simple;\n(ii) if the testator dies owning no other property passing under a gift of realty, any beneficial interest, of which the testator could dispose by will, in proceeds of sale under a trust for sale of a legal or equitable fee simple.\n(2) In this Article “capital money” means capital money under the Settled Land Acts 1882 to 1890.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1994/1899/article/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:44:37.123327+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}