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Trusts-Perpetuities-Trust To Maintain Testator's Grave

Michigan Law Review

The testator bequeathed $500 in trust, to be used until exhausted in purchasing flowers for his grave three times a year. Held, the trust was non-charitable and invalid as contrary to the rule against perpetuities. Meehan v. Hurley (R. I. 1930) 150 Atl. 819.