DESCENDANTS. Those who have issued from an individual, and include his children, grandchildren, and their children to the remotest degree. Ambl. 327 2 Bro. C. C. 30; Id. 230 3 Bro. C. C. 367; 1 Rop. Leg. 115; 2 Bouv. n. 1956.
(n) Lineal descendants are the direct line of relationship flowing downwards from an individual starting with his children, grand children and their children and so on . Unlike collateral descendants it wont include brothers and sisters ...
Legacies To Descendants.
A legacy to the descendants of A, will comprehend all his children, grandchildren, etc.; and if the will direct the bequest to be divided equally among them, they are entitled to the fund per capita.
Legacies To A Family.
Memorials by descendants
Rebecca Nurse's descendants erected an obelisk-shaped granite memorial in her memory in 1885 on the grounds of the Nurse Homestead in Danvers, with an inscription from Whittier.
Descendant Those person who are born of, or from children of, another are called that person's descendants. Grandchildren are descendants of their grandfather as children are descendants of their natural parents.
Per stirpes: (Latin: by stocks) Inheriting per stirpes means the division of a deceased's estate among his descendants, with the children of a deceased son or daughter dividing their parent's share equally among themselves.
Lineal descendants take the place of their ancestor. Thus an eldest son dying and leaving issue would be represented by such issue, who would exclude their father's brothers and sisters. 5.
Want or non-existence of descendants; more particularly, lack of issue who may take an estate limited over by an executory devise. Failure of justice. Defeat of right and justice from want of legal remedy. Failure of record.
in law, restriction of inheritance to a limited class of descendants for at least several generations.
Per Stirpes This term is most commonly used in wills and trusts to identify how property should be distributed among children and their lineal descendants.
: a fee which is granted to an individual and to that individual's descendants, which is subject to a reversion or a remainder if a tenant in tail dies with no lineal descendants, and which is not freely alienable ...
a person's children or other lineal descendants such as grandchildren and great-grandchildren. It does not mean all heirs, but only the direct bloodline.
Expanded Legal Definition of Derivative WorkDescendant Those person who are born of, or from children of, another are called that person's descendants.
*pater familias - the "head of the household," holding the patria potestas over all descendants, male and female, through the male line (i.e., the agnatic family). He also had power over those in bondage through mancipatio (i.e.
People who are born of, or from children of, another are called that person's descendants. Grandchildren are descendants of their grandfather as children are descendants of their natural parents.
HAEREDES PROXIMI
The children or descendants of the deceased. Dalr. Feud. Pr. 110; Spellm. Remains. ... more
HAEREDES REMOTIORES
The kinsmen other than children or descendants; Dalr. Feud. Pr. 110; Spellm. Remains. ... more ...
Stirpes
Latin: the offspring of a person; his or her descendants. For example, inheriting per stirpes means having a right to a deceased's estate because you are a descendant of the deceased. A common phrase in wills.
Language used to leave property to a person and his or her descendants, which typically take the form "to A, and the heirs of his body," where A is the person receiving the property.
issue
1) n. a person's children or other lineal descendants such as gra...
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Fee tail
A form of tenure under the feudal system that could only be transferred to a lineal descendant. If there were no lineal descendants upon the death of the tenant, the land reverted back to the lord.
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A matter to be decided by a court. 4. Stocks, bonds, or other securities that are offered for sale to the public. 5. Descendants, such as children, grandchildren, etcetera.
Itemize To record each item or article separately.
right of representation In probate, inheritance of succession by right of representation takes place when the descendants of a deceased person receive the same share or right in an estate that the deceased person would have received, if living.
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