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OF DISTRIBUTION. 115
It hath been determined, that small sums
occasionally given to a child, cannot be deemed
an advancement; so, maintenance money,
or allowance made by the father to his son at
the university; or in travelling; putting a
child apprentice; keeping him at school; and
such like expences, having for object the
child's improvement and education only, are
not to be take as part of his advancement.
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But the father's buying an office for the son;
or a commission in the army; marriage portions
given to daughters; or provisions made by
marriage settlement; and such like kinds of
donations, as indicate a settlement of such
child, independent of the father,--these are advancements,
and must be refunded, or the
value thereof added to such residue of the estate,
as cometh to the children only, to be distributed
between them agreeable to the statute.
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A child partly advanced, shall bring in the
advancement only among the other children;
and the wife shall have no advantage of it.
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And if a child who hath received any advancement
from his father, shall die in his father's
life time, leaving children, such children
shall not be admitted to their father's distributive
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