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Anti Lapse Statute

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

anti-lapse statute


: a statute providing that in the event a person who would have received a gift under a will dies before the person who made the will dies then the gift is distributed to the heirs of the person who would have received the gift compare lapse




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