Remington v. American Bible Society
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Petition to the Superior Court in Hartford County for advice as to certain questions arising under the will and in the settlement of the estate of Betsey Hanchett. The petitioner was administrator with the will annexed. The testatrix resided at Suffield, in this state.
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Petition to the Superior Court in Hartford County for advice as to certain questions arising under the will and in the settlement of the estate of Betsey Hanchett. The petitioner was administrator with the will annexed. The testatrix resided at Suffield, in this state. By her will, which was executed on the 15th of October, 1869, she gave a farm in Suffield to one Silas Adams, with such farming utensils, stock and furniture as might he in her possession at the time of her decease, and after making numerous pecuniary legacies, among which were one of twelve hundred dollars to the American…
1Opinion of the CourtPardee, J.
Formerly in England the rule prevailed that a lapsed legacy of personal' property fell into the residuary estate, and a lapsed devise of real estate went to the heirs at law. The reason usually assigned in the books for this distinction is, that a devise of real estate operated only upon land whereof the testator was seized when he made his wall, inasmuch as that instrument was deemed to be in the nature of a conveyance or appointment of a specific estate; whereas a bequest of personal property refers to such as he might own at the time of his death. Some of the courts in this country, in…
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