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general bequest
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bequest
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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referring specifically either to the property or the instrument under which it was created or acquired, or to … wholly repealed by s. 2 of the Wills Act, 1837, which does not extend to Scotland, where, as generally in Europe, except in England and Ireland, a man cannot deprive his wife and children of a reasonable
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Annuity
carry interest (Re Hiscoe, (1902) 71 LJ Ch 347). A personal annuity of inheritance will pass under a general bequest, Aubin v. Daly, (1820) 4 B&A 59; In re Trenchard, 1905 (1) Ch 82. An annuity is frequently
Restraint of marriage
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 donee or legatee takes the gift or bequest whether he or
Legacy
bounty of the testator, it is postponed to 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
Money land
the real use at the time the will was made; 4thly, not to pass as money by a general bequest to a legatee, but it would by a particular description, as so much money to be laid out
Charities, or Public Trusts
other; in its more restricted and common sense, relief to the poor. In English law it means a general public use, Commissioners for Income Tax v. Pemsel, 1891 AC 531, and comprehends 'relief of aged, impotent, and … 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
Domestics
upon a month's warning or upon payment of a month's wages. As to the persons entitled under a bequest to 'domestic servants,' see Re Lawson, (1914) 1 Ch 682; Re Jackson, 39 TLR 400. See MASTER AND … it is usual to engage domestic servants at a fixed amount of wages per annum. But there is generally no express stipulation as to the time that the service is to last; and when the terms are
Cy-pres
it). The principle of this doctrine of construction is, that where a testator hs two objects,one primary or general and the other secondary or particular, which are incompatible, the particular must be sacrificed in order that effect … a mixed fund. See Re Harwood, Coleman v. Innes, 1936 Ch 285. It is also applied to charitable bequests, and was formerly pushed to a most extra-vagant length. But this sensible distinction now prevails, that the court
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