Practical Advice to Testators and Executors: Containing Much Useful Information as to Wills and Testamentary Documents : with Numerous Examples of the Manner in which Legacy and Annuity Receipts and Residuary and Succession Accounts Should be Prepared : Also Indicating the Duties of an Executor, from the Death of a Testator Down to the Time of Preparing and Passing His Residuary Account

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Ballantyne, 1875 - 247 pages

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Page 182 - Every past or future disposition of property, by reason whereof any person has or shall become beneficially entitled to any property or the income thereof upon the death of any person dying after the time appointed for the commencement of...
Page 240 - An Act to repeal an Act of the present session of Parliament, intituled an Act for the more effectual abolition of oaths and affirmations taken and made in various departments of the State, and to substitute declarations in lieu thereof, and for the more entire suppression of voluntary "and extra-judicial oaths and affidavits, and to make other provisions for the abolition of unnecessary oaths.
Page 158 - Every PAST or future disposition of property, by reason whereof any person has, or shall, become beneficially entitled to any property, or the income thereof, upon the death of any person...
Page 85 - Act, in any employment, occupation, or trade in which she is engaged, or which she carries on separately from her husband, and also any money or property so acquired by her through the exercise of any literary, artistic, or scientific skill, and all investments of such wages, earnings, money or property, shall bo deemed and taken to be property held and settled to her separate use, independent of any husband to whom she may be married, and her receipts alone shall be a good discharge for such wages,...
Page 74 - That no appointment made by will, in exercise of any power, shall be valid, unless the same be executed in manner herein-before required; and every will executed in manner hereinbefore required shall, so far as respects the execution and attestation thereof, be a valid execution of a power of appointment by will, notwithstanding it shall have been expressly required that a will made in exercise of such power should be executed with some additional or other form of execution or solemnity.
Page 79 - ... set apart a sufficient fund to answer any future claim that may be made in respect of any fixed and ascertained sum covenanted or agreed by the lessee to be laid out on the property demised, or...
Page 51 - Deceased, do make or cause to be made a true and perfect Inventory of all and singular the Goods Chattels and Credits...
Page 181 - Most Gracious Sovereign, , WE, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled, towards raising the...
Page 183 - ... accruing to any person or corporation upon the extinction or determination of such charge, estate or interest...
Page 82 - An Act for the more effectual securing the payment of '* rents and preventing frauds by tenants," it was enacted, that where any tenant for life should happen to die before or on the day on which any rent was reserved or made payable upon...

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