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Contingent legacy

after-wards are void not only in regard to gifts to particular persons but in regard to the whole class if it … Contingent legacy, one bequeathed on a contingency; e.g., if the legatee attain

two objects,one primary or general and the other secondary or particular, which are incompatible, the particular must be sacrificed in order … condition satisfies it, although not literally fulfilled. Thus, if a legacy upon a condition precedent require the consent of three persons

Executor

pay their debts, and for claimants to send in the particulars of their claims to a named person within the time … of the property he cannot be compelled to pay a legacy within that period, even in a case where the testator

Wills

if the will has been made in contemplation of a particular marriage it will not be revoked by that marriage: Law … whom or to whose wife or husband any beneficial devise, legacy, estate, interest, gift, or appointment, of or affecting any real

Donatio mortis causa

use, or upon trust for another person, or for a particular purpose. The gift of a cheque upon the donor's banker … 78 Sol Jo 135]. This kind of gift resembles a legacy, inasmuch as it is ambulatory, incomplete, and revocable during the

Contingent remainder

statute in all possible cases of the determination of the particular estate; they were only preserved against those destructive acts by … thereafter plus a period of gestation, and see also CONTINGENT LEGACY, and s. 163 (English) L.P. Act, 1925. The whole subject

heir

heir 1 : an heir by blood 2 : the particular heir granted or devised an estate tail as distinguished from … an heir who is named in the will but whose legacy will fall to a substitute legatee under a vulgar substitution

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