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from heir to heir, or passes to a devisee or purchaser, unless the benefice become vacant in the lifetime of the patron, when the void turn devolves upon the personal representative, Mirehouse v. Rennell, (1833) 7 Bli

Donatio mortis causa

it is a gift which can only be made effectual by obtaining payment of it in the donor's lifetime, and is revoked by his death; see Tate v. Hilbert, (1793) 2 Ves Jun 111; Re Beaumont, (1902)

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Dower

and in default of appointment, to him for life, and on the determina-tion of his estate in his lifetime, to a trustee and his heirs for the life of the purchaser in trust for him, and on

Widow

the statutory trusts for the issue of the intestate, but if those trusts fail or determine in the lifetime of a surviving husband or wife of the intestate, then upon trust for the surviving husband or wife

Venter

womb. As to the cases in which a child will be held to be born in a testator's lifetime because it was at that time en ventre sa mere, see Villar v. Gilbey, 1907, AC 139; and

Trust for sale

property as realty (see CONVERSION), except that upon a lapse of the devise of realty in the testator's lifetime the property resulted to the heir-at-law, Ackroyd v. Smithson, (1780) 1 Bro CC 503. Another and more practical

Revocation of Will

or other act done animo revocandi; (3) by the disposition of the property by the testator in his lifetime; (4) by marriage, except in certain cases of testamentary appointment. By the first and third of these modes,

Residuary devisee

will contained, which shall fail or be void by reason of the death of the devisee in the lifetime of the testator, or by reason of such devise being contrary to law or otherwise incapable of taking

Gavelkind

man have three sons and purchase lands held in gavelkind, and one of the sons dies in the lifetime of his father, leaving a daughter, she will inherit the share of her father; yet she is not

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