request

To ask or express a wish for something. Philomath College v Wyatt, 27 Or 390, 31 P 206, 216. Sometimes to direct or command, although in a delicate manner. In other words, a precatory word, subject to construction in a proper case as a mandatory term. Coulson v Alpaugh, 163 111298, 45 NE 216; Shaver v Weddington, 247 Ky 248, 56 SW2d 980. Under some circumstances, a request is the same as a command and has the same meaning. A request from a person in authority is understood to be a mere euphemism. It is in fact a command in an inoffensive form. See State ex rel. Freeman v Scheve, 65 Neb 853, 91 NW 846. The words "request," "hope," "not doubting," that the executor will conduct in a specified manner, when they come from a testator who has power to command, are to be construed as commands in his will, clothed merely in the language of civility, and they impose on the executor a duty which courts have in repeated instances enforced. Pembroke Academy v Epsom School Dist. 75 NIT 408, 75 A 100. The word may be employed in a will as an entreaty, depending upon the context in which the word is inserted and the circumstances attendant upon its use. Marx v Rice, 1 NJ 574, 65 A2d 48, 9 ALR2d 584.