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cease to be a charge for the benefit of persons entitled to

devised estates expectant on determination of term, and with

fit of survivors

and their issue, being grandchildren, &c.,

and direction to pay surplus of rents to person next in rever

raise and levy a competent sum or sums of money for payment of the several legacies or portions next hereinafter mentioned; that is to say, the sum of £— for each and every of my children born and to be born who shall be living at my death, or born in due time afterwards, other than and clauses for bene- except the child or children who for the time being and before he, she, or they shall attain the age of twenty-one years shall become seised of or entitled to the said devised estate, either for an estate of freehold in possession, or for an estate of freehold immediately expectant on the death of my said wife, and with interest for each of the same sums respecsion. (In wills). tively, at the rate of £ per cent. per annum, from the death of my said wife, and thenceforth, until the child to whom the said portion shall belong shall attain the age of twenty-one years, or receive his or her said portion; and the same interest, to be applied by the trustee or trustees for the time being in, for, or towards the maintenance, education, and advancement of each of the children respectively from whose portion the same shall arise: Provided always, in case all the children attaining the age of twenty-one years shall depart this life in the lifetime of my said wife, without leaving any issue of their bodies lawfully begotten living at her death, and all the children who shall be living at her death shall depart this life under that age without leaving issue lawfully begotten at any of their deaths, then the said portions or principal sums shall cease to be a charge for the benefit of the persons entitled to the said estates after and expectant on the determination of the said term of 500 years: Provided always, and in case any or either of my said children shall depart this life without leaving any issue of his, her, or their body or bodies lawfully begotten living at his, her, or their death or deaths, or such issue shall die under the age of twenty-one years and without leaving any issue of his, her, or their body or bodies lawfully begotten living at his, her, or their death or deaths, then the principal, and also any additional or any surviving portion of each of the children so dying, shall belong to and be held in trust for the other or others of the children entitled to portions as aforesaid, to be equally divided between them if more than one, share and share alike, as tenants in common and not as joint

tenant: Provided further, and in case any child or children who shall depart this life in the lifetime of my said wife or afterwards and under the age of twenty-one years, shall leave any issue of his, her, or their body or bodies lawfully begotten living at the death of my said wife, or such child or children so dying under the age of twenty-one years shall survive my said wife, and in that event leaving any issue living at the death of the same child or children respectively, then the additional and also every accruing or surviving portion or share of each of the children so dying shall belong to and be held in trust for his or her child, if only one, or if more than one child who shall be living at the death of my said wife, or as the event or circumstances of the case shall require at the death of the parent of the same grandchild or grandchildren respectively, to be equally divided between the same grandchildren if more than one, share and share alike as tenants in common and not as joint-tenants, and with benefit of survivorship between the said grandchildren proceeding from one and the same parent; and if any one or more of the same grandchildren'shall depart this life under the age of twenty-one years, and without leaving issue living at the time of their death or deaths, and if all the grandchildren proceeding from one and the same parent, and entitled as aforesaid, shall depart this life under the age of twenty-one years, and without leaving issue living at any of their deaths, the original and also any additional and surviving share of the same parent shall be held upon the same or the like trust, and limitations over, as if the same parent had departed this life under the age of twenty-one years without leaving any issue living at his or her death; the portion or share of each of the same children and grandchildren respectively to be payable and paid to him or her respectively when and as he or she respectively shall attain his or her age of twenty-one years, unless he or she shall attain that age in the lifetime of my said wife, and in that case to be payable and paid to him or her respectively on the death of my said wife, and at the rate aforesaid, to be payable and paid to each of the same children and grandchildren respectively, for his or her portion for the time

Of real estate for testator's grandsons born

in his lifetime, successively for

life; remainder

to their first and

other sons in

tail male; reinainder to

the use of testator's grandsons born after

der to testator's

in his life for

applied for his or her maintenance, education, and advancement pursuant to the directions hereinbefore contained: Provided always, and I declare and direct my said trustees and the survivor of them, and the executors or administrators of such survivor, do and shall permitand suffer the person or persons who for the time being shall be entitled to the reversion or remainder of the said premises comprised in the said term of 500 years, immediately expectant on the determination of the same term, to receive and take the rents and profits of the same premises, or the residue and overplus thereof which from time to time shall remain after answering and paying the said interest, at the rate aforesaid, when and as the same shall become due and payable.

CII. In trust for the first and other sons of my said daughter lawfully begotten and to be begotten, which shall be born in my lifetime successively according to the priority of their births, for and during the term of their respective natural lives, and without impeachment of or for any manner of waste; and from and after the decease of each such son, In trust for the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and all and every other son and sons of each such grandson respechis death in tail tively, and severally and successively in remainder, one male; remain after the other as the same grandsons (being the sons of granddaughters, each son respectively) shall be in seniority of age and as to those born priority of birth, and the several and respective heirs male their lives, with of the body or several and respective bodies of the same grandson or grandsons respectively lawfully issuing, every elder of the same grandsons and his first and other sons, and the heirs male of his and their body and bodies of the same grandson and grandsons issuing, being always to be preferred to and take before any younger of the same grandsons and his first and other sons, and the heirs male issuing from the body and bodies of such younger grandsons; and on failure of such issue, In trust for the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and all and every other son and sons of the said A. B., to be born after my death severally and successively in remainder one after another, as they respectively shall be in seniority of age and priority of birth, and the several

remainders in tail, and as to

those born after his death, in tail.

and respective heirs male of the body or several and respec-
tive bodies of my said last-mentioned grandson and grand-
sons respectively lawfully issuing, every eldest of the same
grandsons, and the heirs male of his body issuing, being
always to be preferred to and to take before the younger
of the same grandsons and the heirs male of his body
issuing; and on failure of such issue, In trust for the
daughter (if only one), and if more than one, then all
the daughters of the said A. B. lawfully begotten and to
be begotten, to be equally divided between or among them
if more than one, share and share alike as tenants in
common and not as joint tenants, such granddaughters as
shall be born in my lifetime, to be tenants for their respec-
tive lives, without impeachment of or for any manner of
waste, with remainder after the death of each of them, as
to her share, to her first and other sons respectively ac-
cording to the priority of their births, in tail with remainders
as to her share to her daughters as tenants in common,
in tail with cross remainders between her daughters in tail,
and such daughters as shall be born after my death to
be tenants in tail of their respective shares, and cross
remainders to be and be considered as limited between
the same daughters and their descendants, so that on the
death of each daughter, and the failure of her issue, whether
such issue are to take by purchase or descent, the original
and also any additional share of each of any granddaughters
of whose issue there shall be such failure, may go and
remain by way of cross remainders in the same or the like
manner, and for the same or the like estates, as the same
would have stood limited in case such granddaughter had
not been born; And on the determination of all the estates
hereinbefore limited to or for the benefit of the children
and issue of the said A. B., then the said manor and other
hereditaments situate at or in in the county of
shall be held in trust for my said wife C. D., her heirs and
assigns for ever.

CIII. And it is hereby further directed, declared, and Of real and peragreed, that the said A. B. and C. D., or other trustee or trustees for the time being, shall from and after the decease ly, with cross

sonal estate for children equal

remainders

where there is

of the survivor of them the said E. F. and G. H., his intended no appointment. wife, stand and be seised of the said messuages &c., and also stand and be possessed of the said sum of £3 per cent. Consolidated Bank Annuities, and the rents, dividends, interest, income, and produce thereof respectively; and after the decease of the survivor of them the said I. K. and L. his wife, and of the said E. F. and G. H. his intended wife, upon trust, to convey, pay, assign, or transfer the same respectively unto the child, if only one, and if more than one, then unto or between and amongst all the children of the said intended marriage between the said E. F. and G. H., to be divided between the same children if more than one, in equal shares and proportions as tenants in common and not as joint-tenants, and his, her, or their heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns, to be vested in the same children respectively when and as they respectively shall attain their respective ages of twenty-one years, or die under that age having issue living at their respective deaths; and in case any one or more of the said children of the said intended marriage shall depart this life under the age of twenty-one years without leaving any issue of his or their body or respective bodies living at his or their death or respective deaths, then in trust to convey, release, pay, assign, and transfer the original share or shares of the said messuages &c., and also of the said Bank Annuities, which under the trusts hereinbefore contained shall belong to the child or children respectively who shall die as aforesaid, and also that part or share or those several and respective parts or shares of and in the same messuages &c. and Bank Annuities which from time to time shall belong to or be taken by the same child or children respectively, so dying as aforesaid, under this present provision, unto the other, or if more than one, the others of the same children, to be equally divided between or amongst the same children if more than one, share and share alike as tenants in common and not as jointtenants, and his, her, or their heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns, to be vested at the respective ages, days, or times hereinbefore appointed respecting the original share or shares of the same child or children; and in case there shall be no child of the said intended marriage, or no child

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