A Treatise on the Law of Wills: Including Their Execution, Revocation, Etc. ... with Full References to the Latest American and English Decisions, Volumen2

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T. H. Flood, 1900 - 1501 páginas

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Election in the case of a bequest of the proceeds of a policy
752
Parol evidence to show that the testator meant illegitimate
755
CHAPTER XXVIII
778
Definition of the word relations as statutory next of
784
Distribution among relations as a class is usually per capita
790
Gifts to servants
792
Presumption that legitimate nephews and nieces are meant
796
GIFTS TO THE HEIRS AND THE NEXT OF KIN AS PURCHASERS
809
Words of limitation and words of purchase distinguished
810
Definition of the word heirs when used as a word of purchase
811
The inadmissibility of parol evidence to vary the meaning of the word heirs 609 An heir takes as a purchaser land devised to him by his ancestor
812
The period at which class is to be ascertained where the gift is vested
814
Remainder to heirs after a life estate in one who is an heir at the death of the testator 809 811 812 812 814
815
Gifts to heirs of living person Heirs apparent or presumptive Recognition of ancestor as living
817
Devises to heirs peculiarly described Heirs of a particular
819
The construction of a devise to the heir in the singular
820
The meaning of the term right heirs
821
Circumstances under which the word heirs is equivalent to the word children
822
Heirs may mean children in a devise in fee and if the devisee die without heirs then over 819
824
The word heirs in gifts of personal property means next of
826
Gifts of personalty to the heir or heirs as persona designata
829
Personal and real property blended in a gift to the heirs
830
Whether a husband or wife is included in the word heirs 623 Whether heirs when purchasers take per stirpes or per capita
832
When a distribution per stirpes is favored
834
Statutory modification of the laws of descent 825
836
Construction of the words next of kin when the statute of distribution is referred to 836
838
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844
Presumption that testator means legitimate next of kin
845
Bequests to executors for their own benefit
856
The words male heirs create an estate tail
862
CHAPTER XXXIII
878
The rule is not applicable to remainders to children
891
Executory trusts in wills
899
Statutes abolishing the rule in the United States
905
Definition and construction of the word issue when it is
918
Mode of distribution among issue as purchasers
924
The effect of a devise over on death during minority in creating
929
The effect of an introductory clause purporting to dispose of
931
A power of disposal may raise a fee by implication
938
Direction to sell land for the purpose of paying debtsWhen
960
or request of a legatee
969
Election in the case of a devise of the homestead
1056
CHAPTER XXXVIII
1063
Gifts causa mortis of savings bank books checks and negotiable
1070
The effect of judicial decree legitimatizing illegitimate children
1078
Circumstances under which the corpus of a fund may be
1086
The law of modern trusts
1091
The origin and early employment of uses
1092
Language by which a trust may be createdThe duration
1111
Trusts to sell land When power of sale only is created
1118
The execution of a power of sale by surviving executors
1125
789a A trustee cannot purchase the trust propertyThe remedy
1139
The liability of a purchaser for the application of the trust prop
1148
The modern rule as to the creation of precatory trusts
1155
Precatory words in a devise to a person for himself and children
1161
The execution of a power of appointment by will by a general
1168
The fraudulent and improper and excessive execution of powers
1176
CHAPTER XLI
1185
Gifts to orphan asylums and for the benefit of orphans and wid
1211
societies
1241
The validity and performance of conditions which are attached
1252
Statutory limitations upon the time of charitable gifts by will
1265
From what time a will speaks as respects a devise to the hus
1278
The meaning of the failure of issue at or after the death of
1279
CHAPTER XLIII
1285
Conditional limitations and remainders which are dependent
1293
An early vesting is favored by the
1299
Vested interests may be created by directions for the future
1307
The effect of a power of disposal on a vested remainder
1313
The vesting of pecuniary legacies and particularly of those
1327
CHAPTER XLIV
1337
The origin of executory devises and of the modern rule of per
1343
The possibility of the happening of the future event
1349
Vested estates are not within the rule of perpetuities
1356
Devise over on the termination of a charity When void for
1362
The separation of gifts to classesWhen not permitted
1368
Cases illustrating the New York rule of perpetuities
1377
When a gift of what may remain after a void gift is invalid
1392
Patent and latent ambiguities defined The admissibility
1398
Parol evidence to show mistakes and supply omissions
1404
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