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Widow

beneficiaries, count as two persons. In default of the above, see BONA VACANTIA. See also DOWER; INHERITANCE; DISTRIBUTION, STATUTE OF; INTESTATES' ESTATES ACT (for deaths before 1926). Widows are privileged by many statutes-see, e.g., PENSIONS; ACTIO PERSONALIS; … in this s., namely:- (i) If the intestate leaves a husband or wife (with or without issue) the surviving husband or wife shall take the personal chattels (q.v.) absolutely and in addition the residuary estate of the

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Obsolete

and so in the Civil Law desuetude works invalidity. As to the English Common Law, Wager of Battel survived till 1819 and required a statute, or was deemed to require one, for its abolition, and so did

close

to a state of completion [after the class closes, the trust shall continue…until the death of the last surviving member of the class "Louisiana Revised Statutes"] n : an enclosed area [break another's ] … class closes, the trust shall continue…until the death of the last surviving member of the class "Louisiana Revised Statutes"] n : an enclosed area [break another's ]

idiot

idiot : a person with esp. profound mental retardation NOTE: While the terms idiot imbecile, and moron survive in many state codes and statutes, they are generally no longer used in both medical and legal contexts. … esp. profound mental retardation NOTE: While the terms idiot imbecile, and moron survive in many state codes and statutes, they are generally no longer used in both medical and legal contexts. The modern terminology distinguishes between mild,

wrongful death action

death and that seeks damages for the benefit of the survivors or the estate of the decedent compare survival action NOTE: A wrongful death action is intended to compensate for injury to beneficiaries and not the injury … beneficiaries and not the injury to the decedent. The right to bring such an action is defined by statute.

Chattels or catals

concern the realty, such as terms of years of lands or tenements, wardships, the interest of tenant by statute staple, by statute merchant, by elegit, and such like, Co. Litt., 118 b. Chattels personal or in a … later date, in the nature of freehold or parcel of it. The distinction in the class of chattels survives in the legal meaning of the terms, 'personal chattels,' denoting movable property and 'chattels real,' which concern the

trust

and that names no specific beneficiary NOTE: An honorary trust may be upheld as valid where allowed by statute providing that its purpose (as for the care of an animal or grave) is sufficiently clear. Unlike a … a trust in which a spouse leaves his or her estate upon death to a trust naming the surviving spouse as beneficiary usually with remainders to children or other descendants called also bypass shelter trust credit shelter

heir

from esp. close blood relationship as distinguished from one (as the state) whose status arises by operation of statute presumptive heir : heir presumptive in this entry pretermitted heir : a descendant of a testator who would … an inheritance cannot be voided or undone except by exclusion under a valid will if he or she survives the ancestor called also apparent heir compare heir presumptive in this entry heir at law : heir heir

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