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    legatee, in the law of wills, is any individual or organization bequeathed any portion of a testator's estate. Depending upon local custom, legatees may...
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    would fall and that his son would rule France. He left his fortune to 97 legatees and asked to be buried by the Seine. On 3 May he was given the last rites...
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  • ademption; if the legatee dies before the legacy passes to him or her; in the event that the legatee repudiates; in the event that the legatee is unfit to inherit;...
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    clause is called the residuary taker, residuary beneficiary, or residuary legatee. Such a clause may state that, in the event all other heirs predecease...
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    Shia Muslims, they hold that Ali bin Abi Talib, the Prophet Mohammed's legatee, succeeded him and provided an interpretation and explanation of the Holy...
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    revelation (Arabic: ناطق, romanized: nāṭiq, lit. 'orator') and Seth was his legatee (Arabic: وصي, romanized: wasī, lit. 'inheritor, guardian'). He argues that...
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    2002. Hebbar, Nistula (25 October 2019). "Dushyant Chautala turns true legatee of Devi Lal". The Hindu. Retrieved 27 October 2019. "JJP sounds the poll...
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    300 for spelling reform; the bulk of his fortune went to the residuary legatees—the British Museum, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and the National...
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    rulers. After the revolt's failure, David was forced to make Basil the legatee of his extensive possessions. In 1001, after the death of David of Tao...
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    died, his son Hasan was acknowledged as the next caliph in Kufa. As Ali's legatee, Hasan was the obvious choice for the Kufans, especially because Ali was...
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  • bequeathed his estate (then valued at £11 million) to his heir and sole legatee John Edwards; in 1998, at Edwards' request, Brian Clarke, a friend of Bacon...
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    Muhammad's household (ahl al-bayt) were entitled to the caliphate. As Ali's legatee, Hasan must have been the obvious choice for the caliphate. Some Shia reports...
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    Carnegie Corporation of New York (this same body also became his residuary legatee), $60,000,000 to public library buildings, $20,000,000 to colleges (usually...
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    34 17 June 1747 An Act to enable His Majesty to allow to the Residuary Legatees of Sir Joseph Jekyll Knight, late Master of the Rolls, deceased, Part of...
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    devises for real property, bequests for personal property (except money), or legatees for money. Except in some jurisdictions where a person cannot be legally...
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  • Searles Brooks) The Sexton Blake Library 339 The Case of the Kidnapped Legatee Anon. (R. C. Armour) The Sexton Blake Library 340 Flat Number 4 Anon. (William...
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  • of Iran,[citation needed] based on the idea that Islamic jurists are "legatees" of Muhammad and the Imams, that in the absence of an infallible Imam,...
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    externally from a will but imposing obligations as a trustee on one, or more, legatees of a will. Semi-secret trust: A trust in which a will demonstrates the...
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    son-in-law, cousin and his heir 'Ali bin Abi Taalib as his Vicegerent, legatee and Wali of the Faithful. This tradition continued through all the Tayyibi-Ismaili...
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    who had been her intimate friend for many years. Vanhomrigh's choice of legatees caused a good deal of surprise since she did not know either of them well...
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  • Liepāja/Mogo was founded in March 2014 as a phoenix club and an indirect legatee of FK Liepājas Metalurgs, which was dissolved following the 2013 Latvian...
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  • property; one to state B, for permitting the transfer of the bonds to the legatees on the books of the corporation; one to state C, for allowing them to be...
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    the University of Oxford in 1928. After Ravel's death, his brother and legatee, Edouard, turned the composer's house at Montfort-l'Amaury into a museum...
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    (2013). Emmaüs et l'abbé Pierre. Paris: Presses de Sciences Po. ISBN 9782724613919. OCLC 858176971. Emmaus International, Abbé Pierre’s sole legatee...
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    into shares and distributed to his wife Elizabeth Baldwin Rice and other legatees. After her death in 1896, a new will was drafted on September 26, providing...
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  • he had carried out an attack not to split the firm's money with other legatees. The third blacklister is a nurse who used redundant doses of potassium...
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  • instructions, but a few hours after the codicil was executed. The residuary legatees claimed that any trust was invalid, because parol evidence was inadmissible...
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  • sometimes created when the legator has a double-barrelled name and the legatee has a single surname, or vice versa. Nowadays, such names are almost always...
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    and exchanging their estates, and for securing to several Protestant legatees the legacies to them bequeathed by the last will of Nicholas Plunkett,...
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    bequest from a member of that family, as was common practice, requiring the legatee to adopt the surname and arms of the legator, where a branch of a family...
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