Legal Opinion
Pascucci v. Alsop
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided January 29, 1945No. 8829PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGroner, C. J.
The single question here is whether in a case in which an unmarried man, without children by a former marriage, devises all of his property by will and leaves no provision for any child of his subsequent marriage, the law annexes to such will the tacit condition that if he afterwards marries and has a child born of such marriage, the will shall be held revoked and of no effect.
The testator, Agostino Pascucci, was married twice, and there were no children of the first marriage. In the interval between the death of his first wife and his second marriage he made his will, disposing of his entire…
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