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Executor of an executor

Executor of an executor. The interest in a testator's estate and effects, vested in his executor, at the decease of the executor, devolves upon such executor's executor;

heir

under a vulgar substitution in the event that he or she refuses the legacy or dies before the testator called also instituted legatee irregular heir in the civil law of Louisiana : an heir who inherits a

desire

see also precatory NOTE: Courts have variously interpreted desire in wills to indicate either a direction of the testator that must be followed or merely an expression of what the testator hoped would happen.

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Contingency with a double aspect

in any way, through the failure of the contingency on which such preceding interest depends. As when a testator devises to A. for life; and if he have issue male, then to such issue male and his

Cumulative legacies

egacies which are merely repeated. In the construction of testamentary instruments, the question often arises, whether where a testator has twice bequeathed a legacy to the same person, the legatee is entitled to both, or only one

Pasupu Kumkuma

Pasupu Kumkuma, is a part of Will in connection with the bequest of the testator's daughter respecting an absolute right and is not consistent with the conferment of limited caste, Venkatarama v. Rajyalakshmi,

Officious Will

Officious Will, a testament by which a testator leaves his property to his family, Sand. Just.

Limited executor

distinguished from one whose appointment is absolute, i.e., certain and immediate, without any restriction in regard to the testator's effects or limitation in point of time, 1 Wms. Exors.

Nuncupative Will

Nuncupative Will, a verbal testament depending merely upon oral evidence, being declared by the testator in extremis before a sufficient number of witnesses and after wards reduced to writing, 2 Bl. Com. 500.

Notice to quit

parties please, if the tenant dies his personal representatives have the same interest in the land which their testator or intestate had, and are, therefore, entitled to the same notice to quit; for such tenancy is a

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