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Wills: Devolution Of Lapsed Portion Of Residue, Sheldon J. Plager

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Recent Cases, Law Review Staff

Vanderbilt Law Review

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Use Of Survivorship Clauses In Wills, Harold A. Bowron, Jr.

Vanderbilt Law Review

Today a draftsman of wills should consider the increased risks of multiple deaths resulting from the hazards of modern living in general and travel by airplane and automobile in particular. He should be aware of the possibility of the client's death with his intended beneficiary within a short period, in a common disaster, or under circumstances in which there is no evidence of survivorship. The failure to provide for these possibilities may lead to the frustration of a testamentary disposition, as a beneficiary must survive the testator in order to take under the testator's will.' Further, the advent of the …

Some Observation On Wills Under The Indiana Probate Code Of 1953, Max Rheinstein

Indiana Law Journal

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Wills--Formalities For Execution--Publication And Acknowledgment In Kentucky, P. Joan Skaggs

Kentucky Law Journal

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Book Reviews, Grant Gilmore, Robert J. Nordstrom, Richard J. Faletti, Robert Barbeau Mautz, Charles Elmer Fiddler, Calvin W. Corman, George B. Fraser, Adam Yarmolinsky, James A. Durham, Reginald Parker, Jo Desha Lucas, Thomas W. Christopher, Frederick J. Ludwig, John S. Bradway, Harold Gill Reuschlein, Henri Renard S.J., C. Dallas Sands, William P. Murphy

Journal of Legal Education

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Wills, Estates And Trusts -- 1954 Tennessee Survey, William J. Bowe

Vanderbilt Law Review

Freedom of Testation: Other than the statutory forced share of a spouse' testators have almost unlimited freedom in the disposition of their property. A devise or bequest will be held invalid only when it runs counter to some well established rule of public policy. Thus gifts in violation of the rule against perpetuities, against accumulations or against restraints on alienations are void. Further, the courts will strike down capricious or whimsical bequests, as well as those which are conditioned upon the performance of illegal or tortious acts. But in absence of any violation of public policy a testator is free …

Probate Of A Part Of A Will, Thomas E. Atkinson

Kentucky Law Journal

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Recent Developments In The Kentucky Law Of Wills--1949-1954, Frederick W. Whiteside Jr., James S. Kostas

Kentucky Law Journal

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Admissibility Of Parol Evidence To Explain Ambiguities In Wills, Paul E. Decker

Kentucky Law Journal

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Probate Of Wills In Kentucky--Jurisdiction And Procedure, J. Quentin Wesley

Kentucky Law Journal

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Joint And Mutual Wills In West Virginia, I. M. L.

West Virginia Law Review

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Wills--Void Residuary--Intestacy--Right Of Nonrenouncing Spouse To Share, B. A. G.

West Virginia Law Review

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Failure To Mention Afterborn Children In Will Made While Wife Is Pregnant As Showing Intent To Disinherit, Myer S. Tulkoff

Kentucky Law Journal

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Some Aspects Of Powers Of Appointment In Maryland, M. Peter Moser

Maryland Law Review

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Book Reviews, Elliott E. Cheatham, I. Beverly Lake, Thomas Clifford Billig, Frederick W. Whiteside Jr., Carl H. Fulda, A. Ladru Jensen, Paul Sayre, Charles H. Livengood Jr., Thomas A. Cowan, Clyde W. Summers

Journal of Legal Education

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Conflict Of Laws-Model Execution Of Wills Statute-Law Governing Revocation Of Will, Edward W. Rothe S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

Decedent's will, devising Iowa realty, was denied probate in Illinois, the state of domicile, on grounds that the will had been revoked by cancellation. The devisees offered the will for probate in Iowa, under whose law no revocation was effected. The heirs contested probate on grounds that the Illinois denial of probate was conclusive and binding on Iowa courts in view of §633.49, Iowa code, 1946: "A last will and testament executed without this state, in the mode prescribed by the law, either of the place where executed or the testator's domicile, shall be deemed to be legally executed, and …

Wills--Time For Contest--Admission To Probate Of Non-Testamentary Instrument, E. G. R.

West Virginia Law Review

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The Drafting And Revision Of Wills And Trust Instruments Under The Revenue Act Of 1948, H. D. Battle

West Virginia Law Review

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Illegal Conditions And Limitations: Effect Of Illegality, Olin L. Browder, Jr

Michigan Law Review

IN earlier articles the writer undertook to explore that miscellaneous and somewhat neglected field of law in which public policy is held to nullify the efforts of persons to impose certain types of conditions and limitations on dispositions of their property.' Such provisions most commonly take the form either of conditions subsequent or executory limitations, but occasionally appear as conditions precedent or special limitations. Unlike provisions which run afoul of the rule against perpetuities or the rules against restraints on alienation, the provisions in question usually prescribe conduct on the part of beneficiaries which is not directly related to the …

Book Reviews, Philip A. Hendrick, Charles L.B. Lowndes (Reviewer), Adrian W. Dewind (Reviewer), Chas. A. Morehead (Reviewer), John R. Stivers (Reviewer)

Vanderbilt Law Review

An Estate Planner's Handbook By Mayo Adams Shattuck

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1948. Pp. 575. $7.50

reviewer: Philip A. Hendrick

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Estate Planning and Estate Tax Saving By Edward N. Polisher

Philadelphia: George T. Bisel Company. Second Edition, 1948. 2 Volumes. Pp. xxxii, 923. $20.00

reviewer: Charles L.B. Lowndes

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Federal Taxes--Corporations and Partnerships, 1948-49 By Robert H. Montgomery, Conrad B. Taylor and Mark E. Richardson

Vol. I: Gross Income and Deductions Vol. II: Taxes, Returns and Administration New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1948. Pp. xiii, 1001; pp. iv, 881. $20.00

Federal Taxes--Estates, Trusts and Gifts, 1948-49

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Dower--Property Subject To Right--Contract Before Marriage To Will To Another, D. B. H.

West Virginia Law Review

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Deeds-Testamentary Character, James R. Bliss S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

In 1929 J. J. Coulter and wife signed, acknowledged, and delivered to be recorded an instrument granting in customary form certain described land to their daughter, Eliza Coulter. The instrument then recited, "It is understood between the parties hereto that the grantors are to have the possession, control and occupancy of said lands during their natural life, and at their death the title to said lands shall vest in the said Eliza Coulter, but not until the death of both grantors herein, does the title pass." The present action, presumably instituted after the death of the makers, sought construction of …

Charities-Statutory Restrictions On Testamentary Dispositions To Charity-Interpretation Of California Statute, Edwin F. Uhl

Michigan Law Review

Testatrix, domiciled in California, devised her residuary estate to the Eastern Star Lodge, expressly disinheriting her heirs. A further clause provided, "Any portion of my estate which shall be held to have been disposed of in violation of section 41 of the Probate Code shall be distributed to my friend, Eleanor Mott." Section 41 provides that charitable gifts made by a testator, survived by certain designated relatives, including nephews and nieces, "who, under the will, or the laws of succession, would otherwise have taken the property so bequeathed or devised," would be invalid unless executed at least thirty days prior …

Wills--A Problem In Statutory Interpretation, Bertel M. Sparks

Kentucky Law Journal

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Model Probate Code And Monographs On Probate Law: A Review, Russell Denison Niles

Michigan Law Review

The current volume in the Michigan Legal Studies, Problems in Probate Law: Model Probate Code, is an outstanding example of what can be achieved by the cooperation of a professional association and a well-financed and forward-looking law school. The Probate Division of the Section of Real Property, Probate and Trust Law of the American Bar Association initiated the project of preparing a model probate code and sponsored the project through to completion. The code is the Probate Division's proudest achievement. But the code would not have been possible without the Herculean labors of Professor Lewis M. Simes, Director of …

Soviet Law Of Inheritance: Ii, Vladimir Gsovski

Michigan Law Review

Wills. Neither the Civil Code nor any other statute sets forth any specific requirements for capacity to make a will. Therefore, the soviet jurists deem any person who is generally competent to enter into legal transactions (Civil Code, Section 8) capable of making a will. Thus, minors under the age of eighteen years and persons adjudged unable to manage their affairs because of mental disease or weak-mindedness do not have testamentary capacity. Likewise, a will executed by a testator while "in a state of mind which precluded his understanding the significance of his acts," has no validity (id., Section 3r).

Administration Of Estates-Discretion Of Court In Appointment Of Administrator Contrary To Statutory Preference, Cornelia Groefsema S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

The County Court, disregarding the statutory order of preference, appointed a disinterested third party administrator with the will annexed because of the conflict of interest between the grandchildren who were entitled to the appointment under the statute and the creditors. The grandchildren as heirs of the devisees in decedent's will claimed that the creditors' claims were barred by the laches of the former administrator, their nominee. The circuit court decided that the statute was mandatory and ordered the appointment of the grandchildren. The creditors appeal. Held, reversed. The original appointment by the county court of a disinterested person will …

Confidential Relation-Presumption Of Undue Influence

Indiana Law Journal

Notes and Comments: Wills

Charities-Words Necessary To Create A Valid Trust For Charitable Purposes, John S. Dobson S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

Testatrix left a will in which she directed her executor, after paying certain specific bequests, to give the residue of her estate "to some worthy cause or institution." From a decree rejecting the contention of decedent's next of kin that this residuary gift was void for indefiniteness, the next of kin appeal, arguing that the word "worthy" is not synonymous with "charitable," and that, in view of this, the bequest should fail for uncertainty, because testatrix did not specify the particular institution which was to receive the benefit of her bounty. Held, the bequest is valid. This court feels …