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specific devise
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Wills
of Blewitt, (1880) 5 PD 116. By s. 175 of the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, contingent, specific or residuary devises of real or personal property carry the income, and see the (English) Trustee Act, 1925, … of his disposable property. ''But in law ultima voluntas in scriptis is used, where lands or tenements are devised, and testamentum, when it concerneth chattels': Co. Litt. 111 a. Depository of Will of Living Person.-By the (English)
abate
abated to make up the deficit. Under the Uniform Probate Code, property in the estate that is not specifically given under the will abates first, residuary devises abate second, general devises abate third, and specific devises abate … [the legacies abated proportionately] NOTE: A problem arises in estate law when the amount of the bequests and devises made in a will exceeds the assets available in the estate. In such a case, some or all
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legacy
all of the testator's estate which has not been distributed through other legacies or charges upon the estate specific legacy : a legacy payable only from a specific fund or asset in the estate uni·ver·sal legacy in … property by will ;specif : a gift of personal property by will : bequest see also ademption compare devise conjoint legacy in the civil law of Louisiana : a legacy by a single disposition to more than
ademption
similar property to the recipient named in the will compare advancement NOTE: Only gifts that are characterized as specific devises, bequests, or legacies are subject to ademption. … property to the recipient named in the will compare advancement NOTE: Only gifts that are characterized as specific devises, bequests, or legacies are subject to ademption.
Marriage
otherwise as to personalty [Re Goodman's Trusts, (1881) 17 Ch D 266], and they could take under a specific devise or real estate to 'children', Gray v. Stamford, (1892) 3 Ch 88. The law of England will not
remainder
that which remains or is left ;specif : the property in a decedent's estate that is not otherwise devised or bequeathed [I leave the rest, residue, and of my estate to my son Michael]
Frauds, Statute of
to contracts for the sale or purchase of land, but it also applies to other cases in which specific performance would be granted by a Court of Equity. It applies wherever the defendant has obtained some substantial … 4 of that Act. The statute also contained important provisions as to the making, revocation, etc., of wills devising land, and as to nuncupative wills, etc., which have been repealed by the Wills Act, 1837 (1 Vict.
heir
estate 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
Quorum
in order that business my be validly transacted and that its acts may be legal. Bye-law not describing specific number but stating that more than one half of number of members must be present, Committee Constitute quorum … then it is competent for the committee itself to fix the quorum as part of its power to devise its day-today procedure. Quorum does not apply to bodies doing judicial function. Quorum is fixed for meetings of
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