Skip to content

Legatee - Law Dictionary Search Results

Research workspace

Save terms and build your research trail

A free trial unlocks notes, tags, search history, and the full AI Studio desk for judgment research.

Lapse

or legacy is said to lapse when the devisee or legatee dies before the testator. In such case the devise or

Such

a gift of 'such parts' of testator's property as the legatee may desire, enables the legatee to take the whole; and

Legacy duty

the distance of relationship between the testator or intestate and legatee. The personal representative is liable to pay the duty. He

Keep your definitions linked to case research

Restraint of marriage

general restraint of marriage, are void, i.e., the donee or legatee takes the gift or bequest whether he or she marry

Precatory words

a thing be done; e.g., that property bequeathed to a legatee be disposed of by him for the benefit of other

Mutual Will

benefits, as by either of them constituting the other his legatee; that is to say, when the executants fill the roles

Heir

Heir [fr. heire, Old Fr.; h'res, Lat.], a person who succeeds by descent to an estate of inheritance. It is...

universal successor

law of Louisiana : a successor (as an heir, universal legatee, or legatee under universal title) who succeeds to the rights

legacy

a legacy by a single disposition to more than one legatee or of indivisible property to more than one legatee de·mon·stra·tive

gift

exclusion) sub·sti·tu·tion·al gift [səb-stə-tü-shə-nəl-, -tyü-] : a gift to a legatee or devisee in substitution for another devisee or legatee who

  • Last »

Try the research workspace — 7 days free


AI Briefs · Semantic Search · Save & annotate judgments

Start your 7-day free trial