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vulgar substitution

as distinguished from substitutio pupillaris substitution of an heir in place of a minor who actually receives the testamentary gift but dies before reaching the age of majority] in the civil law of Louisiana : a testamentary disposition

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Ademption by satisfaction

because the testator, while alive, has already given property to the beneficiary with the intention of rendering the testamentary gift inoperative, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 40.

Legacy

of his Reduced Bank Three per Cents. And (4) Cumulative, or substitutional, when a testator by the same testamentary instrument, or by different testamentary instruments, has bequeathed more than one legacy to the same person, and the … Legacy [fr. legatum, Lat.]. A legacy is a gift of personalty by will, and, arising as it does from the mere bounty of the testator, it is

Wills

s. 11, as to deposit of wills under control of the High Court. Law before 1838.-The right of testamentary aliena-tion of lands is a matter depending on Act of Parliament. Before 32 Hen. 8, c. 1, a … execution of any will, to whom or to whose wife or husband any beneficial devise, legacy, estate, interest, gift, or appointment, of or affecting any real or personal estate (other than and except charges and directions for

Trust

object of the trust can be ascertained. a trust cannot be engrafted upon a will unless by a testamentary or codicillary paper executed with the statutory formalities, but if a devise or bequest of the legal estate … or if the trust established do not exhaust the property given, the donee retains, in virtue of the gift, so much of the property as is not affected with the trust; but if property be given to

Donatio mortis causa

need probate, the donee's title being directly derived from the giver in his lifetime; it is not a testamentary act; and it is taken against and not from the executor, whose assent to its enjoyment is not … Donatio mortis causa, a gift of personal property in prospect of death; a death-bed disposition; an inchoate gift of personalty consummated by the

Dower

in case the deceased husband was a lunatic or defective on January 1st, 1925, and died without regaining testamentary capacity or before his committee or receiver was discharged, see (English) A.E. Act, 1925, ss. 45(1)(c) and 51 … Dower [fr. dos, dotis, Lat., a marriage gift; dotare dower, Fr., endow, to furnish with a marriage portion. Dotarium, M. Lat., dotaire, Prov.; douaire, Fr.; a

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