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Wills - Construction - Limitation Of Defeasance Clause, Herbert R. Whiting Apr 1941

Wills - Construction - Limitation Of Defeasance Clause, Herbert R. Whiting

Michigan Law Review

Testatrix died leaving as her only heirs at law and next of kin a son, Thomas, and a grandaughter, Malinda, to whom she devised her estate in approximately equal shares. At the time she executed her will Thomas was twenty-two years of age and unmarried and Malinda was eleven. The principal case turns on the construction of a clause in her will, devising a parcel of land to Malinda, which reads as follows: "I give and bequeath ... the same to the said Malinda McK. Young and her children but if the said Malinda McK. Young shall die before she …


The Revision Of The Treaties Of Montevideo On The Law Of Conflicts, Ernst Rabel Feb 1941

The Revision Of The Treaties Of Montevideo On The Law Of Conflicts, Ernst Rabel

Michigan Law Review

In its issue of July 1940, the Revista Juridica Argentina of Buenos Aires has published the new "Tratados de Derecho Internacional Privado" of Montevideo concluded in 1939 and 1940. We are grateful to this review for apprising us of a significant event in the field of international codification.