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Charities, or Public Trusts
if there is any option in the matter, the gift will be void. To be valid a charitable bequest must be for the public benefit and the trust must be capable of being administered and controlled by
principal
applied first to interest and then to ] ;also : the main body of an estate, devise, or bequest
abatement
1 : the act or process of abating or the state of being abated [challenged the of her bequest] [ of a private nuisance by self-help "W. L. Prosser and W. P. Keeton"] 2 : an amount
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expectancy
: something expected: as a : an interest held by a person who may receive something (as a bequest) in the future but has no enforceable right to it b : the benefit that will be received
Assurances
of land to charitable uses, as including 'a gift, conveyance, appointment, lease, transfer, settlement, mortgage charge, incumbrance devise, bequest, and every other assurance by deed, will, or other instrument.' For other definitions see (English) Law of Property
pour-over
the transfer of property in a decedent's estate or a trust to a pour-over trust [a provision] [a bequest] see also pour-over trust at trust pour-over will at will n : an act or instance of pouring
pour-over
the transfer of property in a decedent's estate or a trust to a pour-over trust [a provision] [a bequest] see also pour-over trust at trust pour-over will at will n : an act or instance of pouring
legacy
bequeath] : a gift of property by will ;specif : a gift of personal property by will : bequest see also ademption compare devise conjoint legacy in the civil law of Louisiana : a legacy by a
severable
severable : capable of being severed : divisible [a contract] [a bequest] compare entire sev·er·abil·i·ty [se-vrə-bi-lə-tē, se-və-rə-] n
viatical settlement
less than the expected death benefit of the policy in return for an assignment, transfer, sale, devise, or bequest of the death benefit or ownership of the policy to the other party (as a company specializing in
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