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Contribution

Contribution, to any fund shall not include any sums in repayment of loan. [Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), … co-debtor is entitled on payment of the debt to a transfer of the securities held by the creditor. Legatees are sometimes compelled to refund and contribute for the payment of debts. In like manner, contribution lies between

Blank transfer

and Powell v. London, etc. Bank, (1893) 2 Ch 555. If in a will the name of a legatee is left blank, the Court may sometimes be able to ascertain from the context who was intended to … by the transferor is handed over with the share scrip to the transferee, who, if he so chooses, completes the transfer by entering his name and then applying to the company to register his name in place

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Heir

Old Fr.; h'res, Lat.], a person who succeeds by descent to an estate of inheritance. It is nomen collectivum, and extends to all heirs; and under heirs, the heirs of heirs are comprehended in infinitum. A person

Trust

a devise or bequest of the legal estate be accompanied with any mala fides in the devisee or legatee, as if there be an express or implied undertaking to execute the intent of making a provision for … Trust, is a comprehensive expression, as covering not only the relationship of trustee and beneficiary but also that a bailor and bailee

Wills

in law ultima voluntas in scriptis is used, where lands or tenements are devised, and testamentum, when it concerneth chattels': Co. Litt. 111 a. Depository of Will of Living Person.-By the (English) Jud. Act, 1925, s. 172, … Re Hewitt, 1926, Ch 740) shall appear by the will.' The effect of this is that if a legatee die before the testator, the representatives of the legatee take nothing, the legacy 'lapsing' for the benefit of

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