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Wills-Revocation By Marriage Where Will Makes Nominal Bequest To Each Heir Not Mentioned, Elizabeth Durfee
Wills-Revocation By Marriage Where Will Makes Nominal Bequest To Each Heir Not Mentioned, Elizabeth Durfee
Michigan Law Review
Testatrix provided in her will that she intentionally omitted all of her heirs not specifically mentioned, "intending thereby to disinherit them," and provided further that "any such persons, or heirs, or any devisees or legatees" contesting the will should receive $1.00. She married after making the will, and this is a petition by the surviving husband to determine heirship. He claims an intestate share of the estate by virtue of a statutory provision that marriage revokes a will as to the surviving spouse "unless provision has been made for the spouse by marriage contract, or unless the spouse is provided …
Future Interests-Acceleration Of Vested Remainders Subject To Complete Defeasance, Allen C. Holmes
Future Interests-Acceleration Of Vested Remainders Subject To Complete Defeasance, Allen C. Holmes
Michigan Law Review
In 1938 the defendant, grantor, executed a deed by which she purported to vest a remainder in her son, the plaintiff herein, subject to a life estate in herself and. in her husband should he survive her. The deed further provided that should her son die before the survivor of her husband and herself, then the property was to pass share and share alike to the son's then living heirs. The grantor survived her husband. Shortly after his death she conveyed her life estate to her son for the express purpose of destroying it through merger with the remainder vested …
Banks And Banking-Bank Deposits And The N.I.L.
Banks And Banking-Bank Deposits And The N.I.L.
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff sued H and W and a writ of garnishment was issued against B who filed a disclosure of an indebtedness owing to H and W as joint creditors. W was later dropped from the case by a voluntary non-suit. Shortly after such dismissal, W applied to B for payment of the debt, but payment was refused because of the outstanding garnishment. B, however, expressed to W an intention, perhaps even an assurance, to honor such application when freed of the garnishment. That garnishment was dismissed several days later, but in the meantime another writ of garnishment in the …