No. XVIII. WILL of a Large LANDED PROPRIETOR. Confirmation of Testator's Marriage Settlement.-Charge of Annuities.-Additional Jointure Rent-charge for Wife. -Term for raising Money in aid of Personal Estate to pay Debts and Legacies.-Term for raising Wife's Rentcharge, and Portions for Testator's younger Children.—Limitations in strict Settlement to the Testator's Issue, with Remainders to his collateral Relations, (Female Tenants for Life taking the Rents to their separate Use).-Powers to Tenants for life to charge with Jointures; to limit Life Estates to Husbands; to charge with Portions for younger Children; to grant Leases; to sell, exchange, and make Partition.-Clause injoining the Use of Testator's Name and Arms.-Devise of Copyhold and Leasehold Estates upon corresponding Trusts. -Plate, &c., to be enjoyed as Heirlooms.-Bequest of Carriages, &c., to Wife.-Direction to keep up Testator's Establishment for a short Period.-Bequest of the Residue of Personal Estate to Trustees for investment in Land, to be THIS IS THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT of of settlement made on tes me, [testator's name, &c.]. I CONFIRM the set- Confirmation tlement, made in contemplation of my marriage with my present wife [name], of my freehold eswhich is thereby limited after my tate at ; To tator's marriage. annuities, particular power of distress. death to uses for securing a jointure rent-charge of £a-year to my Isaid wife for her life, and subject thereto to the use of the sons of our marriage successively in tail male, with reversion to myself in fee-simple. I GIVE to the several per- Gift of life sons next hereinafter named, for their respective charged on lives, yearly sums of the respective amounts next lands, with hereinafter specified, (that is to say), To [annuitant's name, &c.], £&c.; which yearly sums shall issue as rent-charges out of all my freehold lands in the parish of · payable half-yearly, on the 24th day of June and the 25th day of December, the first payment to be made [or, a proportionate part for so much of the current half-year as shall be unexpired at my death to be paid] on such of the same days as shall happen next after my decease, with a proportionate part of the said annuities respectively up to the and be Devise of freehold estates. trustees for deaths of the respective annuitants, and to be recoverable by the respective annuitants in like manner with rent reserved on common demises. I DISPOSE of all the freehold hereditaments of which I am or may at my decease be competent to dispose for an estate of inheritance, with their appurtenances, including my reversion in fee in the said estate comprised in my said marriage settlement, (but, as to my said lands at aforesaid, hereinbefore charged with the payment of the said annuities, subject to such charge), in manner fol As to part to lowing: (namely), As to my hereditaments at now (that is, at the date of my will) let to 500 years. [name of tenant], at the yearly rent of £——, To [trustees], their executors, administrators, and assigns, for the term of 500 years, to be computed from my death, without impeachment of waste, upon the trusts hereinafter expressed; And, as to the same hereditaments, subject to such term, and charge for life, as to all other the hereditaments aforesaid, To the in addition to As to all the estate, To testator's wife, a rent with power of entry. her jointure, intent that my said wife may receive out of the rents during her life a yearly rent-charge of £, in addition to the jointure provided for her by my said marriage settlement, by equal quarterly payments, at Lady-day, Midsummer, Michaelmas, and Christmas, clear of all deductions, but without any proportional part thereof up to her death, the first quarterly portion to be payable on such of the same days as shall first happen after my decease, and that she may have the same remedy by distress for recovering such rent-charge as les sors have by law for the recovery of rent in arrear; and may also, as an additional remedy, when and so often as the same rent-charge shall be in arrear for twenty-one days, enter into possession, (such possession to be without impeachment of waste), and receive the rents of the said hereditaments until the arrears, with the said payments to accrue during such possession, and all consequential costs and expenses, shall be satisfied; And, subject to the same rent-charge and remedies, To [other trustees], their executors, administrators, and assigns, for the term of one thousand years, to be computed from my death, without impeachment of waste, upon the trusts hereinafter expressed; And, To testator's subject to such term, I devise all the hereditaments aforesaid To every son of mine and his issue male sons for life, remainder to other sons in their first and tail male. in succession, so that every elder son and his issue male may be preferred to every younger son and his issue male, and so that every such son may take an estate for his life, with remainder to his first and every subsequent son successively, according to seniority, in tail male; And, on failure of To testator's daughters for such issue, To every daughter of mine and her life, (subject issue male, in succession, so that every elder mited to trusdaughter and her issue male may be preferred to a term li tees for their to separate use), every younger daughter and her issue male, and SO that every such daughter may take an estate for her life, with remainder to her first and every subsequent son successively, according to seniority, in tail male; but subject to a limitation in immediate precedence of the life estate of each daugh remainder to their first and other sons in tail male. To first and other daugh ters of testa tor's sons and ter, to [trustees], their executors, administrators, and assigns, for a term of one hundred years, if she shall so long live, upon trust to pay the rents to such daughter, for her separate use, free from marital control, but without power of alienation, and her receipts alone to be discharges; And, on failure of such issue, To the first and every subsequent daughter successively, in tail male, of every son and daughter of mine, in the order in which my said hereditaments are herein before limited to the sons of every son and daughter of To first and mine; And, on failure of such issue, To the first daughters of and every subsequent son, and the first and every and daughters subsequent daughter successively, in tail general, of every son and daughter of mine, in the order daughters in tail male. other sons and testator's sons in tail general. brothers, born for life, with like remain ders to their issue. in which my said hereditaments are hereinbefore limited in tail male to the sons and daughters of To testator's every son and daughter of mine; And, on failure in his lifetime, of such issue, To every brother of mine born in my lifetime, and his issue, for the same estates and in the same order as my said hereditaments are hereinbefore limited to every son of mine, and To testator's his issue; And, on failure of such issue, To every brother of mine born after my death, and his issue, male and tail for the same estates and in the same order as my said hereditaments are hereinbefore limited to the first and every subsequent son of every son of mine; And, on failure of such issue, To every sister of mine born in my lifetime, and her issue, for the same estates and in the same order, and subject to the same limitations as my said heredi brothers, born general. To testator's sisters and their issue in like manner. |