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intestate succession
Matched in: Term intestate succession
succession
Matched in: Term succession
Widow
the statutory trusts for the issue. And see (English) Legitimacy Act, 1926, s. 9, as to rights of succession of a bastard and succession to a bastard dying intestate. The Statutory Trusts (s. 47) are, in effect, … by the Administration of Estates Act, 1925, s. 46:- (1) The residuary (real and personal) estate of an intestate shall be distributed in the manner or be held on the trusts mentioned in this s., namely:- (i)
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Escheat
the estate was originally derived, taking it as ultimus h'res upon the failure, natural or legal, of the intestate tenant's family. Escheat to the Crown, the Duchy of Lancaster, the Duke of Cornwall and to mesne lords … and arises from an obstruction in the course of descent; it originates in feudalism, and respects the intestate's succession. So, while forfeiture affects the rents and profits only, escheat operates on the inheritance. Escheat arose then, from
intestate
Matched in: Term intestate
intestacy
intestate : an intestate state or condition [the invalidation of the will resulted in her ] 2 : intestate succession at succession [wills should be construed to avoid whenever possible "Smith v. Estate of Peters, 741 P.2d 1172
Heir
heirs are comprehended in infinitum. A person who, under the laws of intestacy, is entitled to receive an intestate decedents property, esp. real property, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 727. The (English) Admin. Of Estates Act, … be defeated by the contingency of some nearer heir being born; as a brother or nephew, whose presumptive succession may be destroyed by the birth of a child; or a daughter, whose present hopes may be hereafter
Hotchpot
Administration of Estates Act, 1925, and replaced by ss. 46-47 of this Act; s. 47, assimilating descent and succession to real and personal estate, has given effect to the principle in the distribution of intestate estates. A … items of property to secure equality of division, esp. as practised is case in which advancements of an intestate's property must be made upto estate by a contribution or by an accounting, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.
Institutions
follow, treat of Legal Successions, admissible only in default of Testamentary. Title V. treats of the Succession to Intestates, to which the cognati, or female side, were admitted by the Pr'torian equity, according to the degree of
Administrator
executor. [Indian Succession Act (39 of 1925) s. 2(a)] --he to whom the property of a person dying intestate, or without executors appointed, accepting, or surviving, is committed by the Probate Court (now the Probate, Divorce and
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