Legacy - Law Dictionary Search Results
Executor
opportunity to obtain in formation of the state of the property he cannot be compelled to pay a legacy within that period, even in a case where the testator directed it to be discharged within six months
Lapse
and to the sovereign as patron paramount of all the benefices in the realm. (2) A device or legacy is said to lapse when the devisee or legatee dies before the testator. In such case the devise
title
of Louisiana : title by which one possesses or owns particular property received (as by purchase, gift, or legacy) before or after the death of an ancestor [a successor by particular title does not continue the possession
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Donatio mortis causa
Re Andrews, (1902) 2 Ch 394; Re Harrison, 78 Sol Jo 135]. This kind of gift resembles a legacy, inasmuch as it is ambulatory, incomplete, and revocable during the donor's life; is liable to his debts upon
Succession duties
succession duty upon 1242l. 19s. 6d. Succession duties are payable as a rule at the same rate as legacy duty in respect of all property liable to be administered by any Court in Great Britain and Northern
Wills
shall attest the execution of any will, to whom or to whose wife or husband any beneficial devise, legacy, estate, interest, gift, or appointment, of or affecting any real or personal estate (other than and except charges
Death duties
Act, 1881; (2) the Succession Duty leviable under the (English) Succession Duty Act, 1853; (English) and (3) the Legacy Duty leviable under the Stamp Act, 1815:- duties leviable on the passing of property by the death of
In terrorem
terrifying). Where a condition which the law will not carry out is attached to a gift or a legacy without a gift over, as where a legacy otherwise lawful is left so that it shall be avoided
Mixed contract
the other, and requires of the latter something of less value than what he has given; as a legacy charged with something of less value than the legacy itself, Civ. Law.
Attestation Clause
s. 9, and 15 Vict. c. 24, in reference to the execution, were in fact complied with.' A legacy to an attesting witness or the husband or wife of such is void, but a will containing such
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