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228 APPENDIX.
No. XXXIII.
A BEQUEST of FURNITURE as an (A) Heir-Loom.
Item,--I give and bequeath unto the said
M. A. and W. A. their executors, administrators,
and assigns, all the furniture, houshold
stuff, and utensils in or belonging to my
mansion house at (other than,
and except
my silver place, which I will shall be
taken, deemed and accounted as part of my
personal estate) also all the orange trees and
lemon trees, and all other greens and plants in,
about or belonging to my said mansion house,
or the gardens to the same belonging; UPON
TRUST nevertheless to permit and suffer the
same to continue and remain as heir-looms in
and about the said house, for the use of every
such person and persons, who for the time being,
shall respectively be seised or possessed of
the freehold of the same mansion-house and
premises, by force and virtue of any devise or
limitation thereof in this may last will and testament
(A) Heir-looms descend to the heir by custom,
along
with the freehold; and some say they are not
devisable; (custom being preferable to a devise.) |