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OF LEGACIES. 89
have been of age had he lived: but if there be
a limitation over, the person to whom the limitation
is made, shall take immediately on the
death of the legatee, within that time. And if
a legacy be payable at such future day, and
interest be bequeathed to the legatee in the
mean time, if the legatee in such case die before
the time, his executor or administrator shall be
entitled to the legacy, without waiting: and
tho', when a future time is annexed to the gift,
as age, or marriage, and the legatee dies within
age, or unmarried, the legacy is lost, yet if it
be limitted to be paid with interest, this addition
of interest to the words, importing a future
gift, makes it a vested legacy, and it shall go
to the executor, or administrator, if the legatee
die before age or unmarried.
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How, and
under what
restrictions
legacies are
to be paid. |
In the case of a legacy from a father to his
child, payable at a future time, or on marriage,
interest shall be paid from the death of
the father, unless a provision be made for
maintenance in the mean time; because he
would have been obliged to maintain the
child had he lived, and it is not to be supposed
he could intend his child should be destitute
of provision, when least able to subsist
without it. |
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