Decedent Estate Law of the State of New York, Chapter Thirteen of the Consolidated Laws (became a Law February 17, 1909: Chapter 18, Laws of 1909) Together with All Amendments, the Notes of the Board of Statutory Consolidation, Notes of the Original Revisers of the Revised Statutes, the Report of the Commissioners of Statutory Revision on the Originals, and the Full Text of All the Statutes Codified in the Decedent Estate Law, Also, an Introduction, Notes of Judicial Decisions and a Commentary, Historical and Expository, on the Text of the Statutes |
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... living prin- ciple of law . The former should generally be avoided as extra- neous to a law book , while the latter should be pursued as much as possible in its utilitarian aspect which is only to illustrate and expound . The things of ...
... living prin- ciple of law . The former should generally be avoided as extra- neous to a law book , while the latter should be pursued as much as possible in its utilitarian aspect which is only to illustrate and expound . The things of ...
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... living principles of English law shall be ready for a new expression in some comprehensive code . Venia Testandi . In New York our present law of devises and testamentary succession is derived wholly from English law , although it now ...
... living principles of English law shall be ready for a new expression in some comprehensive code . Venia Testandi . In New York our present law of devises and testamentary succession is derived wholly from English law , although it now ...
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... living and very influential things in the devel- opment of the institutions of any nation , it is impossible — at least for those of us who are free from the English tendencies to mag- nify the originality and isolation of English ...
... living and very influential things in the devel- opment of the institutions of any nation , it is impossible — at least for those of us who are free from the English tendencies to mag- nify the originality and isolation of English ...
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... living person a deceased person only , and this perverted usage is now extensively sanctioned by authority , especially that of legal writers . But if taken in its secondary sense the word requires to be in the possessive case , if used ...
... living person a deceased person only , and this perverted usage is now extensively sanctioned by authority , especially that of legal writers . But if taken in its secondary sense the word requires to be in the possessive case , if used ...
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... living at the time of testator's death void . Their reason for proposing a change in the old law was explained by the revisers of the Revised Statutes and was wise , as it tended to prevent useless escheats . This provision was , how ...
... living at the time of testator's death void . Their reason for proposing a change in the old law was explained by the revisers of the Revised Statutes and was wise , as it tended to prevent useless escheats . This provision was , how ...
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Common terms and phrases
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Popular passages
Page 242 - No will in writing, except in the cases hereinafter mentioned, nor any part thereof, shall be revoked, or altered, otherwise than by some other will in writing, or some other writing of the testator, declaring such revocation or alteration, and executed with the same formalities with which the will itself was required by law to be executed...
Page 520 - For wrongs done to the property, rights or interests of another, for which an action might be maintained against the wrong-doer, such action may be brought by the person injured, or after his death, by his executors or administrators...
Page 323 - debts " includes every claim and demand, upon which a judgment for a sum of money, or directing the payment of money, could be recovered in an action; and the word
Page 102 - There shall be at least two attesting witnesses, each of whom shall sign his name as a witness, at the end of the will, at the request of the testator.
Page 212 - ... be entitled to recover the same portion from the devisees and legatees, in proportion to and out of the parts devised and bequeathed to them by such will.
Page 199 - The witnesses to any will, shall write opposite to their names their respective places of residence; and every person who shall sign the testator's name to any will by his direction, shall write his own name as a witness to the will.
Page 195 - Where there is nothing in the context of a will from which it is apparent that a testator has used the words in which he has expressed himself in any other than their strict and primary sense, and where his words so interpreted are sensible with reference to extrinsic circumstances, it is an inflexible rule of construction that the words of the will shall be interpreted in their strict and primary sense, and in no other, although they may be capable of some popular or secondary interpretation...
Page 211 - Whenever a testator shall have a child born after the making of a last will, either in the lifetime or after the death of such testator...
Page 148 - A contingent remainder in fee, may be created on a prior remainder in fee, to take effect in the event that the persons to whom the first remainder is limited, shall die under the age of twenty-one years, or upon any other contingency, by which the estate of such persons may be determined before they attain their full age.
Page 91 - ... part of his or her estate, after the payment of his or her debts, and such devise or bequest shall be valid to the extent of one-half, and no more.