Hayes & Jarman's Concise Forms of Wills: With Practical Notes |
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Common terms and phrases
absolutely aforesaid age of twenty-one annuity apply attain the age attestation BEQUEATH bequest calendar months capital charge charitable child or children clause codicil copyhold Court coverture daughter debts deceased DECLARE deed devise DIRECT disposed domicile dying entitled execution favour fee simple freehold gift guardians heirs held hereditaments hereinafter hereinbefore husband income intention interest intestacy invest Jarm L. J. Ch L. J. Ex land leasehold leaving issue legacy legatee lifetime limited living Lord marriage married ment messuages mortgage NOTES TO PREC payable payment personalty power of appointment probate provisions purchase purposes real and personal real estate remainder rents residuary estate residue respect revocation revoked rule against perpetuities sect Settled Land Acts settlement signature sons statute tail testamentary dispositions testator's death thereof thereto tion trade executors vested Vict widow wife words
Popular passages
Page 2 - ... and every word importing the singular number only shall extend and be applied to several persons or things as well as one person or thing; and every word importing the masculine gender only shall extend and be applied to a female as well as a male.
Page 70 - ... and not an indefinite failure of his issue, unless a contrary intention shall appear by the will, by reason of such person having a prior estate tail, or of a preceding gift being, without any implication arising from such words, a limitation of an estate tail to such person or issue, or otherwise : Provided, that this act shall not extend to cases where such words as aforesaid import if no issue described in a preceding gift shall be born, or if there shall be no issue who shall live to attain...
Page 102 - ... will; but the will, with such alteration as part thereof, shall be deemed to be duly executed, if the signature of the testator, and the subscription of the witnesses be made in the margin or on some part of the will...
Page 35 - Act it is enacted6 that if any person shall attest the 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 the payment of any debt or debts) shall be thereby given or made, such devise, legacy, estate, gift or appointment shall, so far only as concerns such person attesting the execution of such will, or the wife or husband of...
Page 165 - ... shall have the same powers, authorities, and discretions, and may in all respects act, as if he had been originally appointed a trustee by the instrument, if any, creating the trust.
Page 181 - Act all rents, annuities, dividends, and other periodical payments in the nature of income (whether reserved or made payable under an instrument in writing or otherwise) shall, like interest on money lent, be considered as accruing from day to day, and shall be apportionable in respect of time accordingly.
Page 35 - ... shall be admitted as a witness to prove the execution of such will, or to prove the validity or invalidity thereof, notwithstanding such devise, legacy, estate, interest, gift, or appointment, mentioned in such will.
Page 1 - An Act for taking away the Court of wards and liveries and tenures in capite, and by knights service, and purveyance, and for settling a revenue upon his Majesty in lieu thereof...
Page 289 - In other words, a perpetuity is a future limitation, whether executory or by way of remainder, and of either real or personal property which is not to vest until after the expiration of, or will not necessarily vest within, the period fixed and prescribed by law for the creation of future estates and interests, and which is not destructible by the persons for the time being entitled to the property subject to the future limitation, except with the concurrence of the individual interested under that...
Page 3 - ... to estates pur autre vie, whether there shall or shall not be any special occupant thereof, and whether the same shall be freehold, customary freehold, tenant right, customary or copyhold, or of any other tenure, and whether the same shall be a corporeal or an incorporeal hereditament...