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Articles 91 - 93 of 93
Full-Text Articles in Estates and Trusts
May A Man Provide In His Will That His Wife Shall Not Take Under It Unless She Shall Survive Him For A Period Of Forty-Eight Hours?, Stephen Darden Brown
May A Man Provide In His Will That His Wife Shall Not Take Under It Unless She Shall Survive Him For A Period Of Forty-Eight Hours?, Stephen Darden Brown
Washington Law Review
The advantages are apparent that might be gained by a man including in his will the provision that his wife should not take under it unless she should survive him for a period of, say, forty-eight hours. As an example, there is the famous French case of Fair v. Vanderbilt, in which both spouses were killed, the wife surviving the husband fifty-nine seconds, and of which a learned author once remarked, "It was the first time in history that a man and his wife were ever killed while riding together." No provision had been made in contemplation of either co-accidental …
Implication Of Life Estates, Distributive Construction And Disposition Of Intermediate Income, Albert M. Kales
Implication Of Life Estates, Distributive Construction And Disposition Of Intermediate Income, Albert M. Kales
Michigan Law Review
The Problems Stated. Suppose a testator makes a devise or bequest to take effect after the death of A, without however expressly giving any interest to A. Does A take a life estate by implication? If not, what happens to the income or the rents and profits? Suppose a testator devise Blackacre to A for life and after the death of A said Blackacre together with other property is devised to B. Here three questions at once arise. Does A take a life estate by implication in the property other than Blackacre? If not, then are the words "after the …
Testamentary Promises To Pay, Nathan Abbott
Testamentary Promises To Pay, Nathan Abbott
Articles
The New York Law Journal for May 23, 1892, contains a suggestive editorial headed "A Will or Not a Will," in which the writer says "Interesting questions are constantly arising in the classification of instruments which, although expressing wishes or intentions to be carried out after death, are open to criticism on the score of testamentary execution." As is intimated by the writer, the difficulty of placing an instrument in either the class of contracts or wills is considerably diminished if the statutory provisions as to execution of wills are elaborate. Where holographic wills are allowed, or wills of personal …