Glenn v. Belt
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Orphans' court of Baltimore county. On the 16th of December, 1830, the appellant’s testator made and published his last will and testament, by which he constituted the testatrix of the appellee his universal legatee, and gave her all that he might possess on the day of his decease, and died in the year 1832 without revoking his said will.
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Appeal from the Orphans' court of Baltimore county. On the 16th of December, 1830, the appellant’s testator made and published his last will and testament, by which he constituted the testatrix of the appellee his universal legatee, and gave her all that he might possess on the day of his decease, and died in the year 1832 without revoking his said will. On the 22dof April, 1828, the testatrix of the appellee also made and published her last will and testament, by which she made the testator of the appellant, her universal legatee, and gave him all that she might possess on the day of her…
1Opinion of the CourtArcher, Judge
Madam Volunbrun''s will, could only operate to pass that, which by law was the subject of a devise or bequest. The expectancy of a benefit to be derived from the will of Clery, was but a naked possibility, and could not, under any authority cited, be the subject of a testament. Indeed, it has been conceded, that such is the lawr, unless some alteration has been effected in it, by the act of 1810, ch. 34.
But the design of the legislature, in the enactment of that law, is so distinctly marked, and points so clearly to one *366object, as to leave us no room to believe for a moment, that they…
2Cited by14 opinions
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- Vogel v. TurntCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1909
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