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Additional legacy
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Legacy
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Cumulative legacies
whether the second legacy must be considered as a mere repetition of the first, or as cumulative, i.e., additional. In determining this question, the intention of the testator, if it appears on the face of the instrument,
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Death duties
Act, 1881; (2) the Succession Duty leviable under the (English) Succession Duty Act, 1853; (English) and (3) the Legacy Duty leviable under the Stamp Act, 1815:- duties leviable on the passing of property by the death of … consisted of 1 per cent., increased to 2 per cent. by the (English) Finance (1909-10) Act, 1910, in addition to other duties on settled property. It was not payable on property settled before August 1st, 1894, and
Abatement
after payment of the debts they abate in proportion, unless a priority is specially given to any particular legacy. A testator is always presumed to intend that the legacies shall be equally paid, unless he expresses in … might have been given in writing by a prisoner or defendant on account of misnomer, wrongful or no addition, annexing thereto an affidavit of its truth. But this plea is now obsolete, since by the (English) Criminal
Succession duties
in respect of property chargeable with estate duty (see that title). The (English) Act of 1888 imposed an additional duty of 10s. per cent. where the successor is the lineal issue or ancestor of the predecessor, and … succession duty upon 1242l. 19s. 6d. Succession duties are payable as a rule at the same rate as legacy duty in respect of all property liable to be administered by any Court in Great Britain and Northern
heir
1982 the Louisiana Civil Code distinguished between legal and irregular heirs who were required to go through an additional procedure in order to receive possession of the property. This division of heirs was eliminated in the 1981 … heir in the civil law of Louisiana : an heir who is named in the will but whose legacy will fall to a substitute legatee under a vulgar substitution in the event that he or she refuses
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