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Conditional Wills, Alvin E. Evans

Michigan Law Review

The discovery of what the language of a testator means is a constant duty of the courts. The task in the case of wills conditional in form frequently is to inquire whether the conditional language is merely formal and used by way of inducement or is intended to be taken literally. Clear cut and uniformly dependable tests as guides to such inquiry do not exist.