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XCI.

WILL of REAL and PERSONAL ESTATE. BE-
QUEST of LEASEHOLD HOUSE to Testator's
Wife. PECUNIARY LEGACIES. SPECIFIC DE-
VISE of a Freehold Farm, subject to a Mortgage.
RESIDUE to one Son.

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General befurniture hold goods

quest of

and house

and chattels to testator's wife.

Bequest of legacies;

pecuniary

I, A. B., of &c., DECLARE this to be my last will. I BEQUEATH to my wife C. B. all my furniture, plate, plated articles, linen, china, glass, wines, liquors, consumable stores, and articles of household and domestic use and ornament; I BEQUEATH to my said wife the sum of £- to be paid to her within one calendar month after my death, and the further sum of £ to be paid to her within three years after my death, with interest thereon at the rate of £- per cent. per annum from the day of my decease, to be paid by equal halfyearly payments, and the first thereof to be Imade at the end of six calendar months from my death; I BEQUEATH to my said wife MY and of a leasehold messuage, No. Street, house.

in

London, she paying the rent reserved by the lease under which I hold the same, and performing and observing the covenants by the lessee and conditions therein contained, and indemnifying my executors and administrators.

leasehold

Pecuniary legacies to children.

vise to one

son.

;

therefrom, and from all actions, suits, claims, and demands in respect thereof; I BEQUEATH to my son E. B., and to each of my daughters, F. B., G. B., and H. B., the sum of £Specific de- I DEVISE unto my son I. B., his heirs and assigns, MY freehold farm lands and hereditaments situate in or near the parish of in the county of, with the appurtenances, subject nevertheless in exoneration of my personal estate to the payment of a principal sum of £now owing to X. Y. on the security of a mortgage thereof, and the interest for the same; AND I HEREBY DEVISE AND BEQUEATH all my real and personal estate, except what I otherwise dispose of by this my will or any codicil hereto, unto my son A. B., his heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns; I DEVISE [devise of trust and mortgage estates to A. B., supra, p. 377]. AND I HEREBY APPOINT my said son A. B. sole executor of this my will. IN WITNESS &c. (a).

General residuary devise to one 802.

Appointment of executor.

(a) This Precedent supposes all the testator's children to be adult.

WILL of a Widower.

XCII.

REAL and PERSONAL Estate. BEQUESTS of pecuniary Legacies, and A LIFE ANNUITY. SETTLEMENT of a sum of Money on an unmarried Daughter. BEQUEST of a gross sum TO A MARRIED DAUGHTER. RESIDUE for Sons equally at 21. IN DEFAULT, for Daughters equally.

I, A. B., of &c., HEREBY DECLARE this to be my last will. I BEQUEATH to each of my executors Bequest to hereinafter named, who shall prove this my will and accept and act in the trusts thereof, £

executors who prove;

Bequest of life annuity.

I BEQUEATH to each of my domestic servants, to domestic who shall, at my death, have been in my service servants. not less than two years, the sum of £19 19s. (a); I BEQUEATH to my confidential clerk, X. Y., and his assigns, during his life, an annuity of £ to be considered as accruing due from day to day, but to be payable by equal quarterly payments, and the first such payment to be made at the end of three calendar months after my death (b); BEQUEATH to my daughter C. D., the wife of E.

I

(a) A bequest of £20 or upwards would be chargeable with legacy duty at the rate of 10 per cent.

(b) See as to the times for payment of annuities bequeathed by will, 2 Williams' Executors, 5th ed. 1253,

et seq.

Bequest to

married daughter, in addition to sum settled

on her marriage.

sum of

money to trustees on trusts after declared.

D., the sum of £

(a), in addition to, and not in substitution for, the like sum of £. covenanted to be paid by me, or my executors or administrators, to the trustees of her marriage settlement in my lifetime, or within six calendar Bequest of a months after my death; I BEQUEATH to F. G., of &c., H. I., of &c., and K. L., of &c., their executors and administrators, the sum of £upon the trusts hereinafter declared concerning the same [general devise of real estate in trust for sale, and general bequest of personalty in trust for conversion to F. G., H. I., and K. L., supra, pp. 369, 370]. AND I DECLARE that the said F. G., H. I., and K. L., and the survivors and survivor of them, and the heirs, executors, or administrators respectively of such survivor, shall, out of the monies to arise from the sale of my said real estate, and from the calling in, sale, and conversion into money of such part of my personal estate as shall not consist of money, and the money of which I shall be possessed at my and legacies death, PAY my funeral and testamentary expenses and debts (including the said sum of £ so covenanted to be paid as aforesaid), and the legacies other than specific bequeathed by this my will, or any codicil hereto, and appropriate, or purchase, in their or his

Trusts of monies to arise from sale and conversion.

To pay

debts

To appro

(a) As this sum is intended to fall within the terms of a covenant for the settlement of after-acquired property, it is bequeathed directly to the daughter.

£- per cent. priate stock

to answer an annuity.

siduary monies for

sons.

vancement.

names or name, a sum of £Consolidated Bank Annuities, to answer the said annuity to the said X. Y. (which said sum I hereby direct shall, subject to the payment of the said annuity, be considered as part of my residuary personal estate). AND SHALL HOLD the residue of the said monies (a), IN TRUST for Trust of reall my sons, or any my son who shall attain the age of twenty-one years, and if more than one in equal shares: PROVIDED ALWAYS, that the trus- Power of adtees or trustee for the time being of this my will, may raise any part or parts not exceeding one-half of the then expectant or presumptive or vested share of any son of mine under the trust herein before declared, and apply the same for his advancement or benefit (b). AND I HEREBY DECLARE, that if no son of mine shall attain the age of twenty-one years, the said F. G., H. I., and K. L., and the survivors and survivor of them, and the heirs, executors, or administrators respectively of such survivor shall hold the said residuary monies, or so much thereof as shall not have become vested or been applied under

(a) The usual clause providing for the investment of the trust funds is here omitted. In its absence it will be the duty of the trustees to invest the funds under the powers conferred upon them by the 25th sec. of the recent Act, 23 & 24 Vic. c. 145. See infra, App. V.

(b) As to the omission of the maintenance and accumulation clauses here, see supra, p. 280, n.

If no son, come en

shall be

titled under

the pre

ceding trust.

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