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1.072 documents for bequest language

- Commissioner v. Estate of Sternberger, 348 U.S. 187 (1955)
... Revenue Code on account of a charitable bequest that is to take effect only if decedent's childles..., in 1919, recognized, in plain language, the propriety of the deduction of the present val...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Refuse the bequest or lose the will contest: the unforgiving doctrine of election: beneficiaries who accept even a small bequest under a will can be estopped from later challenging the document. And the doctrine of election applies to trusts as well, this author argues.
...In the language of Lord Kenyon he must not "blow hot and cold" at ...
- Illinois Bar Journal
- Vol. 98 Nbr. 7, July 2010
- Commissioner v. Estate of Hubert, 520 U.S. 93 (1997)
... tax deduction for marital or charitable bequests by the amount of the administration expenses that ..., notwithstanding differences in their language. Since the marital deduction statute and regulatio...
- U.S. Supreme Court

- Botanic Garden Board Moves to Quell Dispute Over Donation
Several weeks after a divisive public dispute over a surprise donation to the South Coast Botanic Garden, the garden foundation's board has moved to put the issue to rest. This week, board members voted to use a $392,000 bequest from the estate of South Bay hot rod legend Vincent Conze solely for the children's garden and the Japanese garden, as set forth in a trust document sent to the nonprofit foundation in February.

... - months later - about the bequest language, they were infuriated. Several volunteers initiate...
- Daily Breeze
- September 17, 2009
- Home for Incurables v. Noble, 172 U.S. 383 (1899)
... unquestionably gave to Emeline Colville a bequest of $5,000. The will and codicil are printed in ful... or a portion of what the will gives, by language as clear and as free from ambiguity as that contai...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Maryland Court of Appeals Case Summaries: January 29, 2010
Estates & Trusts Class gifts

... properly determined that testator's bequests made to a former spouse's family were made primari... of fact, when applying the statutory language of [section]4-105(4) to decide whether a particula...
- The Daily Record (Baltimore)
- February 06, 2010
- Bankr. L. Rep. P 74,362 in Re Leon Lonstein, Debtor. Leon Lonstein, Appellant, v. Matthew D. Rockman, Appellee., 950 F.2d 77 (1st Cir. 1991)
... interest in an undistributed testamentary bequest became property of the chapter 7 estate at the tim...Thus, under the express language of subsection 541(a)(1), any legal or equitable in...
- Federal Circuits
- Belardo v. Belardo, (Ohio 2010)
Will construction; antilapse statute; extrinsic evidence.

... asserted that according to the plain language of the will, R.C. 2107.52 did not apply and theref...- 4 -. bequest to be given as follows: "to my beloved sons, * * ...
- Ohio Supreme Court
- Lee v. Simpson, 134 U.S. 572 (1890)
... of that clause, precisely as the bequests therein made were sub- . [Page 134 U.S. 572, 578]... it is of no effect, except as its language may bear upon the proper construction of the entir...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Colt v. Colt, 111 U.S. 566 (1884)
...This bequest is on condition that the said James B. Colt shall ...Colt had not been revoked; that the language of the revocation was plainly limited to the first...
- U.S. Supreme Court