Cific legacy” (q
Categories: Property
Definition (1910 Edition)
v.) is sometimes so called.— Specific legacy. A legacy or gift by will of a particular specified thing, as of a horse, a piece of furniture, a term of years, and the like. Morriss vy. Garland, 78 Va. 222. In a strict sense, a legacy of a particular chattel which is specified and distinguished from all other chattels of the testator of the same kind; as of a horse of a certain color. A legacy of a quantity of chattels described collectively; as a gift of all the testator’s pictures. Ward, Leg. 16-18. <A legacy is general, where its amount or value is a charge upon the general assets in the bands of the executors, and where, if these are sufficient to meet all the provisions in the will, it must be satisfied; it is specific,
Source: Black's Law Dictionary, 2nd Edition (1910) — Public Domain.
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