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bequest

other sources to the extent that the first is insufficient general bequest : a bequest that is to be distributed from the

Annuity

347). A personal annuity of inheritance will pass under a general bequest, Aubin v. Daly, (1820) 4 B&A 59; In re Trenchard,

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

Money land

was made; 4thly, not to pass as money by a general bequest to a legatee, but it would by a particular description,

Wills

Act, 1837, which does not extend to Scotland, where, as generally in Europe, except in England and Ireland, a man cannot … executed, confirmed or republished after 1925, by a devise or bequest referring specifically either to the property or the instrument under

Legacy

the claims of creditors. There are four kinds of legacies:-(1) General, when it does not amount to a bequest of any

Charities, or Public Trusts

relief to the poor. In English law it means a general public use, Commissioners for Income Tax v. Pemsel, 1891 AC … the gift will be void. To be valid a charitable bequest must be for the public benefit and the trust must

Trust

the (English) Trustee Act, 1888, by which trustees, as a general rule, are allowed [see Re Somerset, (1894) 1 Ch 231; … executed with the statutory formalities, but if a devise or bequest of the legal estate be accompanied with any mala fides

Cy-pres

is, that where a testator hs two objects,one primary or general and the other secondary or particular, which are incompatible, the … Innes, 1936 Ch 285. It is also applied to charitable bequests, and was formerly pushed to a most extra-vagant length. But

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