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Testamentary causes

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Advocate

of Doctor of Laws at an English university. The jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical Courts in matters matrimonial and testamentary was in 1857 transferred to the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes and the Court of Probate respectively.

Proctor

no longer exists. Owing to the abolition of the jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical Courts in causes matrimonial and testamentary, the (English) Court of Probate Act, 1857 (2 & 21 Vict. c. 77), ss. 43, 105, 106, and

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Institutions

is done by the heir accepting the succession. Fiduciary Bequests are treated of in Titles XXIII. and XXIV. Testamentary Successions, which take place before others, are explained in the last fifteen titles of the second book. Title … treated of. These are: the security they are obliged to give to indemnify Pupils and Minors; the lawful causes exempting persons from being Tutors or Curators, and those for which they may be deprived of their offices.

will

parties [a mutual will executed in connection with an agreement based on sufficient consideration is both contractual and testamentary in nature "Pruss v. Pruss, 514 N.W.2d 335 (1994)"] called also counter will reciprocal will compare joint and … at will : subject to an individual's discretion ;specif : without a requirement that the employer have just cause for terminating an employee [could be discharged at will] vt 1 : to order or direct by will

Conversion, equitable

a lunatic who had attained the age of 21 in 1925 and died intestate without having recovered his testamentary capacity (s. 51 (2) ibid.) and otherwise, cf. ss. 51 (1) and 51 (3) ibid. The doctrine is … Thus, when a person entitled to the fee simple of an estate to be purchased with trust money causes some of the securities for the money to be changed and held in trust for himself, his executors

heir

2 : the particular heir granted or devised an estate tail as distinguished from the heirs in general testamentary heir in the civil law of Louisiana : an heir who inherits under a will heir·less adj heir·ship … heir of the body in this entry forced heir : an heir who cannot be disinherited except for causes recognized by law ;esp in the civil law of Louisiana : an heir who because of youth or

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