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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... Probate of ...... Fosdick v . Delafield ...... Fowler v . Depau ... of the ... 80 , 136 199 144 , 175 , 184 Gilliam v . Guaranty Trust Co .. 147 359 , 360 , 361 , 362 Gilliam v . Guaranty Trust Co .. 239 348 Gilman , Matter of ... .252 ...
... Probate of ...... Fosdick v . Delafield ...... Fowler v . Depau ... of the ... 80 , 136 199 144 , 175 , 184 Gilliam v . Guaranty Trust Co .. 147 359 , 360 , 361 , 362 Gilliam v . Guaranty Trust Co .. 239 348 Gilman , Matter of ... .252 ...
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... probate courts . All the other articles of the statute are concerned with the jurisdiction of surrogates , and might very properly be included in a separate code of surrogates ' law . Over real prop- erty ecclesiastical courts and their ...
... probate courts . All the other articles of the statute are concerned with the jurisdiction of surrogates , and might very properly be included in a separate code of surrogates ' law . Over real prop- erty ecclesiastical courts and their ...
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... probate . There are other departures from the Roman model which may be alluded to hereafter . In following the history of the English law of wills we may sometimes detect the epochs when the deviations from the Roman model begin . Thus ...
... probate . There are other departures from the Roman model which may be alluded to hereafter . In following the history of the English law of wills we may sometimes detect the epochs when the deviations from the Roman model begin . Thus ...
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... probate law of England and America . Anglo - American Jurisprudence . In the states of America , the migration of whole colonies of Englishmen who were subject , fig- uratively speaking , to a ready - made body of law in force in the ...
... probate law of England and America . Anglo - American Jurisprudence . In the states of America , the migration of whole colonies of Englishmen who were subject , fig- uratively speaking , to a ready - made body of law in force in the ...
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... probate or prove them would seem to be in the king's , or common - law , courts , which continued to have juris- diction over all such things as fiefs or seisin of lands and tene- ments , later on called " legal titles . " But the ...
... probate or prove them would seem to be in the king's , or common - law , courts , which continued to have juris- diction over all such things as fiefs or seisin of lands and tene- ments , later on called " legal titles . " But the ...
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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.