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Payment

rendered, Bala Subrahmanya Rajaram v. B.C. Patil, AIR 1958 SC 518 (519): (1958) SCR 1504. (ii) 'Payment' implies gift of money by someone to another. A partition in a H.U.F. can be considered either as 'disposition' or

Restraint of marriage

Restraint of marriage. On the ground of public policy, conditions attached to gifts or bequests to a person who has never been married, if in general restraint of marriage, are void,

class

persons who have some common relationship to a person making a will and are designated to receive a gift under the will but whose identities will not be determined until sometime in the future see also class

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causa mortis

contemplation of death] : made or done in contemplation of one's impending death [rejected his claim that the gift was causa mortis "W. M. McGovern, Jr. et al."] usually used following the term it modifies see also

anti-lapse statute

anti-lapse statute : a statute providing that in the event a person who would have received a gift under a will dies before the person who made the will dies then the gift is distributed to

ademption

adimere to take away, from ad to + emere to buy, obtain] 1 : the revocation of a gift in a will inferred from the disposal (as by sale) of the property by the maker of the

Park

Restrictions on Ribbon Development Acts; Chit. Stat. Tit. 'Crown,' and Bailey v. Williamson, (1872) LR 8 QB 118. Gifts for Parks.-By 34 Vict. c. 13, repealed and re-enacted by the (English) Mortmain and Charitable Trusts Act, 1888,

Paraphernalia

a husband has given to his wife before or during marriage. Whether these were meant to be absolute gifts or were merely paraphernalia for her adornment as a spouse is a question of fact, Tasker v. Tasker,

Money Bill

a context which shows something to the contrary' (ibid.). In Emerson (:in re), (1929) 1 Ch 128, a gift of 'the residue of money at the time of my death' was held to include the residuary personal

Testa de nevil

values of the same; (3) of widows, and heiresses of tenants in capite, whose marriages were in the gift of the king, with the values of their lands; (4) of churches in the gift of the king,

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