62. Inquiries to determine questions as to object or subject of will. For the purpose of determining questions as to what person or what property is denoted by any words used in a will, a court shall inquire into every material fact relating to the persons who claim to be interested under the will, the property which is claimed as the subject of disposition, the circumstances of the testator and of his or her family, and into every fact a knowledge of which may conduce to the right application of the words which the testator has used. 63. Misnomer or misdescription of object. (1) Where the words used in the will to designate or describe a legatee, or a class of legatees, sufficiently show what is meant, an error in the name or description shall not prevent the legacy from taking effect. (2) A mistake in the name of a legatee may be corrected by a description of him or her, and a mistake in the description of a legatee may be corrected by the name. 64. When words may be supplied. Where any word material to the full expression of the meaning has been omitted, it may be supplied by the context. 65. Rejection of erroneous particulars in description of subject. If the thing which the testator intended to bequeath can be sufficiently identified from the description of it given in the will, but some parts of the description do not apply, such parts of the description shall be rejected as erroneous and the bequest shall take effect. 66. When part of description may not be rejected as erroneous. (1) If the will mentions several circumstances as descriptive of the thing which the testator intends to bequeath, and there is any property of his or her in respect of which all those circumstances exist, the bequest shall be considered as limited to that property, and it shall not be lawful to reject any part of the description as erroneous, because the testator had other property to which such part of the description does not apply.

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