The Court held that the word 'issue' in a will distributing residue to 'my children and their issue' bears its ordinary meaning of all lineal descendants, not merely immediate children, following [name withheld] v [name withheld] and [name withheld] v [name withheld]. The use of the word 'parent' elsewhere in the will, and the fact that great-grandchildren were not born at the date of execution, were insufficient to displace the ordinary meaning. Because no contextual ambiguity arose from the will read as a whole, extrinsic evidence of the testator's dispositive intention was inadmissible.
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