Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Surrogates' Courts of the State of New York: With Annotations, Volume 16W. C. Little & Company, 1919 |
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... authority of Matter of Cunnion ( 135 App . Div . 864 , 201 N. Y. 123 ) . In that case what purported to be the last will of the testator was offered for probate , and it was sought to show that he had made a subsequent will ...
... authority of Matter of Cunnion ( 135 App . Div . 864 , 201 N. Y. 123 ) . In that case what purported to be the last will of the testator was offered for probate , and it was sought to show that he had made a subsequent will ...
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... authority for such decision the opinion of the Appellate Division in the proceeding previously instituted by the brother of the petitioner here- in . Held , error ; that the petitioner was in no way a party to the pro- ceeding commenced ...
... authority for such decision the opinion of the Appellate Division in the proceeding previously instituted by the brother of the petitioner here- in . Held , error ; that the petitioner was in no way a party to the pro- ceeding commenced ...
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... authority to transfer these lands to any one , and by transferring the same to the Schoellkopf Holding Company they vested in that com- pany full and complete record title . ( Albany Ex . Savings Bank v . Brass , 59 App . Div . 370 ...
... authority to transfer these lands to any one , and by transferring the same to the Schoellkopf Holding Company they vested in that com- pany full and complete record title . ( Albany Ex . Savings Bank v . Brass , 59 App . Div . 370 ...
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... authority to execute it ; because its effect is to utterly defeat and annihilate the intention of the testator and the specific provisions of the will ; and because the children of Louis Schoellkopf were under the age prescribed in ...
... authority to execute it ; because its effect is to utterly defeat and annihilate the intention of the testator and the specific provisions of the will ; and because the children of Louis Schoellkopf were under the age prescribed in ...
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... authority by virtue of the will itself to make the sale and transfers for the consideration received , to wit , the shares of stock . The power of sale granted by the will must be strictly pursued , and must be executed according to the ...
... authority by virtue of the will itself to make the sale and transfers for the consideration received , to wit , the shares of stock . The power of sale granted by the will must be strictly pursued , and must be executed according to the ...
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Page 455 - A deposit by one person of his own money, in his own name as trustee for another, standing alone, does not establish an irrevocable trust during the lifetime of the depositor. It is a tentative trust merely, revocable at will, until the depositor dies or completes the gift in his lifetime by some unequivocal act or declaration, such as delivery of the pass book or notice to the beneficiary.
Page 388 - States, or elsewhere, or hereafter docketed pursuant to the provisions of section thirty hundred and seventeen of this act, is presumed to be paid and satisfied, after the expiration of twenty years from the time when the party recovering it was first entitled to a mandate to enforce it. This presumption is conclusive, except as against a person who, within twenty years from that time, makes a payment or acknowledges an indebtedness of some part of the amount, recovered by the judgment or decree,...
Page 453 - Thus we have the four unities: unity of interest, unity of title, unity of time, and unity of possession.
Page 24 - person interested ", where it is used in connection with an estate or a fund, includes every person entitled, either absolutely or contingently, to share in the estate or the proceeds thereof, or in the fund, as husband, wife, legatee, next of kin, heir, devisee, assignee, grantee, or otherwise, except as a creditor.
Page 54 - ... for and in consideration of the sum of one dollar, to them in hand paid by the said party of the second part...
Page 362 - The defendant moved to set aside the verdict, and for a new trial, on the ground...
Page 412 - I hereby give my said executors and trustees, hereinbefore named full power to reinvest * * * in any security real or person which they may deem for the benefit of my estate and calculated to carry out the intention of this my last will.
Page 475 - An attorney cannot, without the consent of his client, be examined as to any communication made by the client to him, or his advice given thereon in the course of professional employment...
Page 221 - The degrees of kindred shall be computed according to the rule of the civil law; and kindred of the half blood shall inherit equally with those of the whole blood, in the same degree, unless the inheritance came to the intestate by descent, devise or gift of some one of his ancestors, in which case all those who are not of the blood of such ancestor shall be excluded from such inheritance.
Page 502 - ... made or Intended to take effect in possession or enjoyment after the death of the grantor...