How, and
under what
restrictions
legacies are
to be paid. |
88 OF LEGACIES.
be postponed, for the conveniency of the estate;
in which case it shall not sink. |
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If a will directs a sum of money to be paid
at twenty-one, or marriage, and there are no
words of gift, or of interest to be paid, it shall
not vest before the time.
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If a legacy be given to be void, unless the
legatee marry with the consent of persons
named, and the legatee marry without such
consent, yet the legacy shall not sink; but if
limitted over, and there be a marriage without
such consent, then the first legatee will lose the
legacy, and the person to whom it is limitted
over shall have it. And if the exception only
extend to a marriage with such excepted person will be a
forfeiture of the legacy; and there is no difference
between a condition precedent and subsequent
in this matter.
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When the legacy is payable at a future day,
tho' it is vested and belongs to the executor or
administrator of the legatee, dying before, as,
where a legacy is given to a minor, payable at
his full age, yet the executor or administrator is
not entitled to receive it, till the legatee would |
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