Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During the Time of Lord Chancellor Brougham and Sir John Leach, Master of the Rolls, Volume 2Saunders and Benning, 1835 |
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... legatees . It is admitted that in form and sub- stance this would be a good executory bequest ; for whenever a testator bequeaths property to a person in words which import an absolute gift , and then goes on to provide that , upon the ...
... legatees . It is admitted that in form and sub- stance this would be a good executory bequest ; for whenever a testator bequeaths property to a person in words which import an absolute gift , and then goes on to provide that , upon the ...
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... legatee dying in his own lifetime ; and so have read those words as if they had been , " in case of his death during the ... legatees respectively surviving the ( a ) 2 Str . 1261 . ( b ) 6 Ves . 557 . ( c ) 8 Ves . 12 . d ) 8 l'es . 410 ...
... legatee dying in his own lifetime ; and so have read those words as if they had been , " in case of his death during the ... legatees respectively surviving the ( a ) 2 Str . 1261 . ( b ) 6 Ves . 557 . ( c ) 8 Ves . 12 . d ) 8 l'es . 410 ...
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... legatees over being the children of the first taker is equally beyond dispute . Indeed , this was the case in Turner v . Moor , and in several other recent cases , particularly in Slade v . Mil- ner ( a ) , decided by the present Master ...
... legatees over being the children of the first taker is equally beyond dispute . Indeed , this was the case in Turner v . Moor , and in several other recent cases , particularly in Slade v . Mil- ner ( a ) , decided by the present Master ...
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... legatee's interest , from an absolute interest in the capital sum , into a life annuity in the event of her leaving a ... legatees in the lifetime of the testator . But that the construction adopted below , of death at any time , is ...
... legatee's interest , from an absolute interest in the capital sum , into a life annuity in the event of her leaving a ... legatees in the lifetime of the testator . But that the construction adopted below , of death at any time , is ...
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... legatee's death 8007 . to B. , and 200l . to C. The manner of dividing the sum between two , in unequal portions , might perhaps be thought to indicate a peculiar contemplation of the legatees over . But the decision did not go upon ...
... legatee's death 8007 . to B. , and 200l . to C. The manner of dividing the sum between two , in unequal portions , might perhaps be thought to indicate a peculiar contemplation of the legatees over . But the decision did not go upon ...
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