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Future Interests - Rule Against Perpetuities Applibd To A Charitable Trust
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 …
Trusts-Apportionment Of Dividends Between Life Beneficiaries And Remaindermen - Depletion Of Oil Reserve
Michigan Law Review
Stock in an oil company was left in trust to pay the income to life beneficiaries with remainder over. For income-tax purposes the company deducted from income a figure for depletion of oil reserve, but at the close of each year it added directly to surplus account the same amount which had been deducted for depletion. Since the books of the company thus indicated that its management did not regard the drawing of oil from its wells as reducing the value of its property the court held that dividends, so far as they are made out of this amount, should …