from and after

A term ordinarily signifying the exclusion of the day from which the reckoning is to be made, but not so considered where such construction will defeat the purpose of the contract or statute in which the term appears. 52 Am J1st Time § 27. An expression of futurity but, as it appears in a testamentary gift of a remainder, following a life estate, it does not make the remainder contingent, in the absence of anything else on the face of the will to show that vesting was postponed or intended to be postponed beyond the death of the testator. 33 Am J1st Life Est § 111.