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Malik or milkiyat
there is something in the context to indicate the contrary, Mohendranarayan v. Abdul Gafur, 59 Cal 142. A bequest to a woman 'Malik' imports a full proprietary right unless there is something in the content to qualify
Property
acquired by entry, conveyance, descent, or devise; and in personalty, by many ways, but most usually by gift, bequest, or bargain and sale. Under the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 205, 'Property' includes anything in
Perpetuity
or other instrument. The statutory modification only extends to instru-ments executed after 1925 or to any appointment or bequest by will of a person dying after 1925. The period presented by the rule is to be computed
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Prayer for the Dead
Prayer for the Dead. A bequest of personal estate for masses for the dead is not void as a gift to superstitious uses, Bourne
Roman Catholics
property in their corporate capacity. The Act does not, it seems, operate to render void an absolute immediate bequest to individuals ascertained at the death of the testator [Re Smith, (1914) 1 Ch 937]. As to whether
Satisfaction
or provision, it is then only a satisfaction pro tanto, Hinchcliffe v. Hinchcliffe, (1797) 3 Ves 516. The bequest of a whole or part of a residue will, according to its amount, be presumed either a satisfaction
To be secured
To be secured, means when a bequest is made of an annuity 'to be secured to the annuitant, it does not mean that such a
Conditional legacy
Conditional legacy, a bequest whose existence depends upon the happening or not happening of some uncertain event, by which it is either
Contingent legacy
it may relate to the position or existence of the beneficiary; in the first case as in a bequest to be paid or payable to A. when he shall attain twenty one years, the legacy is vested
Legacy
A gift of property by will esp of money or personal property a bequest Also Fig as a legacy of dishonor or disease
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