Legacy in UK Law
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Wintle v Nye
... ... and testamentary expenses and debts and the legacies and annuities bequeathed by this my Will or any Codicil hereto and the Duty on any legacy or annuity bequeathed free of duty as aforesaid as well as the duty payable on the third part of my estate devised and bequeathed to my Executor as ... ...
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Gill v Woodall & Others
... ... she was doing or known or understood the terms and effect of her will”; ii) The experts agreed that “if the knowledge of the legacy to the RSPCA had been incorporated and processed in [Mrs Gill's] working memory it is most likely that it would have been transferred to her episodic ... ...
- Marshall (Inspector of Taxes) v Kerr
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National Anti-Vivisection Society v Commissioners of Inland Revenue
... ... I do not regard re Villers-Wilkes , 72 L.T. 323 , as a decision that a legacy which had for its main purpose the passing of such an Act is charitable ... 85 The second question raised in this appeal, ... ...
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Hoff and Others v Atherton
... ... In all of them she included Francis as a beneficiary. In the first Will made on 9 October 1973, she gave a £2,000 pecuniary legacy to the National Heart and Chest Hospital and one other legacy and subject thereto she gave the residue to Mr. Krol and, if he predeceased her, to ... ...
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Key and Another v Key and Others
... ... He said that he wanted to increase the legacy to his former employee and that he then looked at Mr Cadge and asked “now is that fair?” ... 62 Mr Cadge said that ... ...
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Elliot v Lord Joicey
... ... The funds in question represented a legacy of £50,000 and a share of residue which had been bequeathed by her father's will and in which she took a life interest ... 22 She made her will ... ...
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Pennington and Another v Waine and Others
... ... If they were effectively given to Harold, Harold has by virtue of that gift and a specific legacy of shares by Ada a majority of 51% of the issued shares of the Company. Judgment of HHJ Howarth ... 10 The judge ... ...
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Bowie (or Ramsay) v Liverpool Royal Infirmary
... ... He received a legacy of £1,000 from the former and succeeded to the latter's whole estate on her death in 1920. He lived in lodgings until 1914 when he went to live with ... ...
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Carr-Glyn v Frearsons (A Firm)
... ... will in circumstances where the solicitor could reasonably foresee that a consequence of his negligence might be the loss of the intended legacy without either the testator or his estate having a remedy against him. That statement of the principle, taken from the headnote to the report, ... ...
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