Legatee - Law Dictionary Search Results
Wills
Re Hewitt, 1926, Ch 740) shall appear by the will.' The effect of this is that if a legatee die before the testator, the representatives of the legatee take nothing, the legacy 'lapsing' for the benefit of
heir
of a person by will or esp. by operation of law see also intestacy, unworthy compare ancestor, devisee, legatee, next of kin, successor apparent heir : heir apparent in this entry beneficiary heir in the civil law
Cumulative legacies
the question often arises, whether where a testator has twice bequeathed a legacy to the same person, the legatee is entitled to both, or only one of them; in other words, whether the second legacy must be
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Lapse
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 or legacy falls into the residuary real or personal
Such
1957 Punj 226: (1957) 32 ITR 418. Means a gift of 'such parts' of testator's property as the legatee may desire, enables the legatee to take the whole; and if the gift embraces only a class of
Legacy duty
1 to 10 per cent. in proportion of the distance of relationship between the testator or intestate and legatee. The personal representative is liable to pay the duty. He must show a receipt signed by the legate
Restraint of marriage
person who has never been married, if in general restraint of marriage, are void, i.e., the donee or legatee takes the gift or bequest whether he or she marry or not; but a condition in restraint of
Precatory words
expressions in a will, praying or recommending that a thing be done; e.g., that property bequeathed to a legatee be disposed of by him for the benefit of other persons ,the question then arising whether the legatee
Mutual Will
when two testators confer upon each other reciprocal benefits, as by either of them constituting the other his legatee; that is to say, when the executants fill the roles of both testator and legatee towards each other.
Contingent legacy
Contingent legacy, one bequeathed on a contingency; e.g., if the legatee attain twenty-one. The contingency may only relate to the disposal of the fund, or it may relate to
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