 | Great Britain. Court of Chancery, William Brown - Equity - 1820 - 496 pages
...very slender ; and so admitted to be by his Lordship. In the civil law, there is a distinction taken between a demonstrative legacy, where the testator...legacy, but points out the fund to satisfy it, and a laxative legacy, where he bequeaths a particular thing. On the first point, I am clear this is a... | |
 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 704 pages
...movable chattel whatever. If the specific thing is disposed of or extinguished the legacy is gone. * * * It is essentially a question of intention when we are inquiring into the character of a legacy upon the distinction taken in the civil law between a demonstrative legacy, where the testator... | |
 | Frederick Thomas White, Owen Davies Tudor - Equity - 1859 - 728 pages
...very slender; and so admitted to be by his Lordship. In the civil law there is a distinction taken between a demonstrative legacy, where the testator...legacy, but points out the fund to satisfy, it, and a taxative legacy, where he bequeaths a particular thing. r*9qq-i *0n the first point, I am clear this... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 958 pages
...Cas. 180, that the question in these cases does not turn upon the intention of the testator, saying: "But I apprehend the words of Lord Thurlow are to...question of intention, when we are inquiring into the a character of the legacy, upon the distinction 5 taken in the civil law, between a demonstra• tive... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 1164 pages
...chattel whatever. If the spécifie thing is disposed of or extinguished, the legacy Is gone. * • * It is essentially a question of intention, when we are inquiring into the character of a legacy upon the distinction taken in the civil law, between a demonstrative legacy, where the testator... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 1164 pages
...chattel whatever. If the specific thing is disposed of or extinguished, the legacy is gone. * * • It is essentially a question of intention, when we are Inquiring into the character of a legacy upon the distinction taken in the civil law between a demonstrative legacy, where the testator... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 1290 pages
...very slender ; and so admitted to be by his Lordship. In the civil law, there is a distinction taken between a demonstrative legacy, where the testator...legacy, but points out the fund to satisfy it, and a taxative legacy, where he bequeaths a particular thing. On the first point, I am clear this is a... | |
 | Frank Sumner Rice, William Lawrence Clark - Law reports, digests, etc - 1902 - 890 pages
...Cas. 180), that the question in these cases does not turn upon the intention of the testator, saying: "But I apprehend the words of Lord THURLOW are to...satisfy it, and where he bequeaths a specific debt." In Wilcox v. Wilcox (13 Allen, 256), WELLS, J., said: " Courts do not incline to construe legacies to... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 1264 pages
...legacy is gone It is essentially a question of intention when we are inquiring into the character of a legacy upon the distinction taken in the civil law...satisfy it, and where he bequeaths a specific debt." The learned vice-chancellor continues that courts incline to consider legacies opening with the bequests... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 1250 pages
...movable chattel whatever. If the specific thing is disposed of or extinguished, the legacy is gone It is essentially a question of intention when, we are inquiring into the character of a legacy upon the distinction taken in the civil law between a demonstrative legacy, where the testator... | |
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But I apprehend the words of Lord THURLOW are to be taken with considerable qualification ; and that it is essentially a question of intention, when we are inquiring into the character of the legacy, upon the distinction taken in the civil law, between... 
