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Example sentences for "life interest"

  • Melton Hall, Wymondham, recently deceased at Florence, has left his personal property, subject to a life interest to his wife, to University College Hospital.

  • It was alleged that a certain asset of the firm (a life interest on property which had been sold by Mr. E.

  • Though he was in no degree fettered as to its disposition, he did not presume himself to have more than a life interest in the estate.

  • You have only a life interest, Mr Longestaffe.

  • He would quarrel perseveringly with his father, who only had a life interest in the estate.

  • I don't think that a woman of forty with only a life interest would be a good speculation.

  • If a man has children living by a former marriage and none by a subsequent marriage, the widow can have only a life interest in her share of his estate.

  • I know she spoke to you about a life interest, because she was angry and wanted to let you feel that she mistrusted your business capacities.

  • I fancy he was especially angry because I promised a life interest to Aniela instead of a round sum down, as it shows how little I trust him.

  • He is quite right as to that, for I was decided that Aniela should have the capital instead of only a life interest.

  • She has a life interest in the homestead; no deed of trust can be put upon it, nor can it be mortgaged.

  • By the code of 1857, the old right of dower, or life interest in one-third of the real estate of a deceased husband, was made an absolute interest; and this is the law at the present time.

  • Fairfax, Anne: wife of Lawrence Washington, 10; marries George Lee and sells her life interest in Mount Vernon to George Washington, 11.

  • At all events she has a life interest in it," Nellie reminded her.

  • I needn't go into the details of Mr. Yard's will, but of course you know Aunt Maria enjoyed only a life interest in her share.

  • Which means, that you 'd reject the offer of a life interest?

  • It 's very unlikely he ever will now; and Dunn's advice is that for a life interest in the title and estates I should bind myself not to marry.

  • If there is no child nor the descendant of a child living, widow has a life interest in one half of the real estate and one half absolutely of the personal estate.

  • If there is a child or lawful issue of a child living, widow has a life interest in one third of the real estate and one third absolutely of the personal property.

  • After the death of either husband or wife, the survivor is given a life interest in one third of the realty of the deceased and an absolute estate in one half of the personalty.

  • The widower takes a life interest in all the wife's real estate, whether there are children or not and all her personal property absolutely if there are no descendants living; otherwise one half.


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