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Future Interests--A Fee Limited Upon A Fee By The Deed--Heir Construed As Heir Of The Body, Howard Caplan
Future Interests--A Fee Limited Upon A Fee By The Deed--Heir Construed As Heir Of The Body, Howard Caplan
West Virginia Law Review
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Operative Facts In Surrenders - Part 1, Merrill I. Schnebly
Operative Facts In Surrenders - Part 1, Merrill I. Schnebly
University of Missouri Bulletin Law Series
A discussion of surrenders is likely to begin with the oft repeated definition of Lord Coke:" 'SURRENDER' sursum redditio, properly is a yeelding up of an estate for life or yeares to him that hath an immediate estate in reversion or remainder, wherein the estate for life or yeares may drowne by mutuall agreement betweene them."' In the passages which follow Coke classifies surrenders in two different ways: first, into surrenders "in deed, or by express words", and surrenders "in law"; secondly, into surrenders "by deed" and surrenders "without deed". There is an obvious shift in the meaning of the …
Preparation And Construction Of Wills, Paul L. Sayre
Preparation And Construction Of Wills, Paul L. Sayre
Indiana Law Journal
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Inheritance By A Murderer From His Victim, H. C. Force
Inheritance By A Murderer From His Victim, H. C. Force
Washington Law Review
The question whether a murderer can inherit from his victim, except in the case of life insurance, is usually answered in the affirmative. The rule is well settled that if the beneficiary under a life insurance policy murders the insured, neither he nor his heirs or representatives can collect the policy. But in cases where a devisee or heir has murdered his testator or ancester, the courts are divided, the majority holding that however undesirable it may be for a murderer to profit by his crime, nevertheless the statutes of wills or of descent are too clear, that the courts …
The Doctrine Of Dependent Relative Relocation In Kentucky, Woodson D. Scott
The Doctrine Of Dependent Relative Relocation In Kentucky, Woodson D. Scott
Kentucky Law Journal
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Testamentary Revival, Alvin E. Evans
Devise To A Wife Of Interest In Remainder Which She Would Take By Descent, Paul L. Sayre
Devise To A Wife Of Interest In Remainder Which She Would Take By Descent, Paul L. Sayre
Indiana Law Journal
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