The Law Relating to the Probate, Legacy, and Succession Duties: Including All the Statutes, and the Decisions on Those Subjects : with Forms and Practical Directions

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Butterworths, 1855 - 408 pages

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Page 209 - ... and every devolution by law of any beneficial interest in property, or the income thereof, upon the death of any person dying after the...
Page 266 - ... the heir or devisee to whom such land or hereditaments shall descend or be devised, shall not be entitled to have the mortgage debt discharged or satisfied out of the personal estate or any other real estate of such person, but the land or hereditaments so charged shall, as between the different persons claiming through or under the deceased person, be primarily liable to the payment of all mortgage debts with which the same shall be charged, every part thereof according to its value bearing...
Page 247 - ... interest in property, or the income thereof, upon the death of any person dying after the time appointed for the commencement of...
Page 80 - Where the person or persons entitled to any beneficial interest in such property shall be the brother or sister of the father or mother or a descendant of a brother or sister of the father or mother of the decedent, at the rate of six per centum of the clear value of such interest in such property.
Page 99 - Estate pur autre vie, whether -Freehold or Customary Freehold, Tenant Right, Customary or Copyhold, or of any other Tenure, and whether a corporeal or incorporeal Hereditament, it shall go to the Executor or Administrator of the Party that had the Estate thereof by virtue of the Grant...
Page 9 - Canterbury, at or before the day of next ensuing, and the same goods, chattels and credits, and all other the goods, chattels and credits of the said deceased...
Page 245 - Most Gracious Sovereign, , WE, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled, towards raising the...
Page 246 - That in all Acts Words importing the Masculine Gender shall be deemed and taken to include Females, and the Singular to include the Plural, and the Plural the Singular, unless the contrary as to Gender or Number is expressly provided ; and the Word
Page 9 - ... and if it shall hereafter appear that any last will and testament was made by the said deceased...

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