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Estates and Trusts

1933

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Future Interests - Rule Against Perpetuities Applibd To A Charitable Trust Jun 1933

Future Interests - Rule Against Perpetuities Applibd To A Charitable Trust

Michigan Law Review

The testator devised property to a trustee to accumulate the income for the period of a life in being and twenty-one years. Then a corporation was to be organized to receive the fund as trustee in order to apply it to a named charitable purpose. Held, that the gift does not contravene the rule against perpetuities on the grounds that the gift takes effect in possession the instant the prior period ends, that beneficially the gift vests in charity at the death of the testator, and that the rule does not apply to charitable gifts. First Camden National Bank …


The Meaning Of "Heirs" In Willsa Suggestion In Legal Method, Lewis M. Simes, Lorentz B. Knouff, George E. Leonard Jr.: Jan 1933

The Meaning Of "Heirs" In Willsa Suggestion In Legal Method, Lewis M. Simes, Lorentz B. Knouff, George E. Leonard Jr.:

Michigan Law Review

A major task of the lawyer is the prediction of judicial action. No less than a quarter of a century ago Justice Holmes referred to the law as a body of "systematized prediction." Today legal scholars are not content to base their predictions solely upon the body of rules announced in judicial opinions. By means of elaborate fact studies they have sought to ascertain how rules of law actually function in society. Not only have these studies dealt with problems of procedure and the administration of courts, they have also invaded the fields of commercial and property law. Among such …