A word of futurity, whlch, as employed in legal documents, stat-utes, and the llke, always imports a con-tinuity of action or condition from the pres-ent time forward, hut excludes all the past Thomson v. American Surety Co., 170 N. Y. 109, 62 N. E. 1073; opinion of Chief Justice, 7 Pick. (Mass.) 128, note
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
