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bequest

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demonstrative bequest

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general bequest

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specific bequest

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Executory devise

interest in lands or chattels (though, in the case of chattels personal, it is more properly an executory bequest) as the law admits in the case of a will, though contrary to the rules of limitation in

Restraint of marriage

Restraint of marriage. On the ground of public policy, conditions attached to gifts or bequests to a person who has never been married, if in general restraint of marriage, are void, i.e., the

Wills

of the entailed property by his will if executed, confirmed or republished after 1925, by a devise or bequest referring specifically either to the property or the instrument under which it was created or acquired, or to

Legacy

the claims of creditors. There are four kinds of legacies:-(1) General, when it does not amount to a bequest of any particular thing or money, as distinguished from all others of the same kind; as if a

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