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conjoint legacy

conjoint legacy see legacy

money or personal property a bequest Also Fig as a legacy of dishonor or disease

Conditional legacy, a bequest whose existence depends upon the happening or not

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Universal legacy, a testamentary disposition by which the testator gives to one

'where a parent (or person in loco parentis) gives a legacy to a child, not stating the purpose with reference to

[fr. adimo, Lat.], revocation; a taking away of a specific legacy, i.e., if a testator, after having given a legacy of

often arises, whether where a testator has twice bequeathed a legacy to the same person, the legatee is entitled to both,

all the benefices in the realm. (2) A device or legacy is said to lapse when the devisee or legatee dies

of the property he cannot be compelled to pay a legacy within that period, even in a case where the testator

78 Sol Jo 135]. This kind of gift resembles a legacy, inasmuch as it is ambulatory, incomplete, and revocable during the

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