• Historically, a bequest is personal property given by will and a devise is real property given by will. Today, the two words are often used interchangeably...
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  • A bequest for a Mass occurs when a person leaves a bequest in their will for a Mass to be said for the repose of their soul. In England after the Reformation...
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  • property that each partner brings into the marriage or receives by gift, bequest or devise during marriage is called separate property (not community property)...
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  • Per capita (category Latin words and phrases)
    indicate that each of the named beneficiaries should receive, by devise or bequest, equal shares of the estate. This is in contrast to a per stirpes...
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    property that each partner brings into the marriage or receives by gift, bequest or devise during marriage is called separate property (not community property)...
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  • four brand new stories, devised by the creators: The Viking's Bequest, The Secret of Easter Island, The Alchemist's Will, and The Druid. New writers,...
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  • (Sayyid Ali Naqi al-Tabatabie and Morteza Ansari) transferred the bequest from India through agents. Morteza Ansari had devised a mode of distribution which...
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    estate that is not specifically devised to someone in the will, or any property that is part of such a specific devise that fails. It is also known as...
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  • A specific legacy (or specific bequest) is a testamentary gift of a precisely identifiable object, distinguished from all other things of the same kind...
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  • I give, devise, and bequeath to the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.” The value of the bequest was roughly $263,000 at the time of Holmes's death and it was President...
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    Ademption (category Wills and trusts)
    testator's death. For a devise (bequest) of a specific item of property (a specific gift), such property is considered adeemed, and the gift fails. For example...
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  • provisions §. 2305. Staff §. 2306. Insurance for Museum §. 2307. Gifts, bequests, and devises of property; tax treatment §. 2308. Annual report §. 2309. Audit...
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  • called a "devise", and a gift of other property was a "bequest". Nowadays, the words "bequeath" and "devise" are synonymous in most jurisdictions and so "I...
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    structures and that SUVCW and its subordinate structures are qualified to receive tax-deductible bequests, legacies, devises, transfers, and gifts. SUVCW...
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  • prosecutor – Special resolution – Special verdict – Specific bequest – Specific devise – Specific finding – Specific legacy – Specific performance –...
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    witnesses, the will is not admitted to probate at all. Where it contains devises or bequests bad in law, as in general restraint of marriage, or tending to create...
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    Estate planning (category Wills and trusts)
    The planning includes the bequest of assets to heirs, loved ones, and/or charity, and may include minimizing gift, estate, and generation-skipping transfer...
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    the breaking open of a last will and testament. Beneficiary – anyone receiving a gift or benefiting from a trust Bequest – testamentary gift of personal...
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  • Hossain. The New Yorker wrote of the bequest: "We take note here of the late Mr. Ozai-Durrani's handsome bequest, and feel the richer for it." Harvard would...
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    at Locust Valley Cemetery, in Locust Valley, New York. She left a token bequest of $25,000 to her son, Vincent, but the bulk of her $3,000,000 estate was...
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    1887) was an English engineer, entrepreneur, inventor and philanthropist. In 1841, he devised the British Standard Whitworth system, which created an...
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    Art in New York City since 1941, acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest. Widely regarded as Van Gogh's magnum opus, The Starry Night is one of...
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  • to $159,000 for 2021 ). Under 26 USC 102(c), the receipt of a gift, bequest, devise, or inheritance is not included in gross income. Thus, a taxpayer does...
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  • first broadcast on ITV between 10 April 1992 and 12 September 2010. Set in the fictional town of Ashfordly and the village of Aidensfield in the North Riding...
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  • Carson, hoping a hefty bequest from her to the Catholic Church might liberate him from his exile. Ralph is "a beautiful man", and Mary goes to great lengths...
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    Waddesdon Manor (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
    This collection was bequeathed to the British Museum and is now known as the Waddesdon Bequest. The interior of Waddesdon Manor was photographed in 1897...
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  • Geoffrey Thorpe in The Sea Hawk, Peter Finch as Lord Nelson in Bequest to the Nation, and Mel Gibson as Fletcher Christian in The Bounty). The film is drawn...
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    Statute of Frauds (category Wills and trusts in the United Kingdom)
    concerning any goods or chattels or personal estate, or any clause, devise, or bequest therein was repealed by section 2 of the Wills Act 1837 (7 Will. 4...
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  • Rensselaer County Historical Society (category Buildings and structures in Troy, New York)
    interest, and acquire by purchase, gift, devise or otherwise, the title to, or the custody of historic spots and places and to receive gifts, bequests and devises...
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    Cleveland Street, which were frequented by aristocrats and well-to-do homosexuals. Stowell apparently devised his theory using Sir William Gull's private papers...
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