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PECUNIARY LEGACY [1 record]

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Record 1 2013-03-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Estates (common law)
CONT

A pecuniary legacy is a legacy of money. ("Sunnucks, Williams and Mortimer on Executors Administrators and Probate", 16th, p. 894)

CONT

A disposition of personalty is a bequest while a gift of money under a will is a legacy. (Oosterhoff, p. 10)

OBS

"legacy" is here the elliptic form of "pecuniary legacy"

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit successoral (common law)
OBS

legs pécuniaire; legs d'une somme d'argent : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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