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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

Legatary [fr. legatum, Lat.], a legatee.

Ch 555. If in a will the name of a legatee is left blank, the Court may sometimes be able to

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that if the fund be called in or fail, the legatee will not be deprived of his legacy, but be permitted

express words, be entitled to the growing crops. But a legatee of the goods, stock, and movables on a farm is

or otherwise, and after the deceased of the devisee or legatee for life, or some other contingency or period, is given

obligation of transferring the latter might be imposed on a legatee. It appears that there were no legal means of enforcing

to pass as money by a general bequest to a legatee, but it would by a particular description, as so much

of an heir) will be separated and given to the legatee. The Balance of Matruka alone is distributable among the heirs

greater than, a portion or provision previously secured to the legatee upon marriage or otherwise, then, from the already quoted inclination

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