(112) Traditional Shari'a, on the other hand, provides for distribution according to strict formulae, and though a surviving spouse must be provided for, her exact share may be limited depending on the presence of other heirs and
devisees. (113) The many permutations can become complicated but, as an example, if a Muslim male died leaving behind only his wife, a son, and a daughter, his wife would receive one-eighth of his property and the rest would pass to his children, with his son taking twice what his daughter would receive.
(27) The tax is levied based on the entire value of the assets in the decedent's estate, rather than on the amounts received by individual heirs or
devisees. (28)
[i]s a creditor, heir, legatee,
devisee, distribute, or beneficiary." 31 C.F.R.
the decedent was the sole
devisee and legatee of the decedent's
In Fairfax's
Devisee, federal review involved a narrow category of state law--the effective date of revolutionary land seizures--and a narrow set of federal rights that the Court had good reason to think were the subject of unique hostility in the relevant state.
To accord to innocent buyer C "the full measure of protection to which he is entitled, that is, a free right of disposal," (86) C's transferee with notice of the mortgage should take free of it even if the transferee is an heir, donee, or
devisee who provided no consideration, since part of C's power of disposition is to make a gift of his lands.
Those who have never attempted to deliberately manufacture an acrostic of this kind, in which the acrostic is not of the easy-to-create kind in which each letter is the first letter of a new sentence in the host text, but rather one in which the majority of the letters in the acrostic must come from words in the interior of sentences in the host text, are likely not to realize just how difficult it is to
devisee such acrostics without leaving some trace of the effort, something slightly stilted about the language of the text, or something unusual about the typeface, type size, spacing or margins used.
In his letter Hillyer told Scripps that he would have to transfer the deed to the city, something he could do as "residuary
devisee under the will." The city then could legally transfer the park to the state, provided two-thirds of the city's qualified voters approved such transfer.
Subjects range from debts, escheat, recital,
devisee and more specialty terms but definitions are geared to consumers, investors and others both within and outside the industry, making it a perfect pick for both specialty college-level courses in real estate and the general-interest library.
Where there is a general devise of land, without any words of inheritance, the law says, that the
devisee shall only take an estate for life; and such is the present case.
(55) This concern can potentially be justified as much by solicitude for the expectations of the devisor as for those of the
devisee. In Hodel v.
In addition, however, the learned judge had doubts about</p> <pre> the consistency with public policy of incorporating conditions in the grant or devise of freehold property, the obvious purpose of which is to perpetuate old resentments and antagonisms and bind the grantee or
devisee to bear them in mind and give effect to them when contemplating any further disposition of the property.
