...correspondent, consistently with his own principles, supposes, that in the interval of nearly seven years, between the making of the will and the death of the testator, alterations should have been made; and particularly, that as one son's capital had received a considerable...

...flinlinntiaa brfirrrrn a lapsed and a void devise. In the former case, the devisW dies in the intermediate time between the making of the will and the death of the testator ; but, in the latter case, the devise is void from the beginning, as if the devisee be dead when the...

...distinctioii, also, between a lapsed and a void devise. In the former case the devisee dies in the intermediate time between the making of the will and the death of the testator, but in the latter case the devise is void from the beginning, as if the devisee be dead when the will...

...Virginia at the time when the present will took effect, (it having been repealed by the legislature between the making of the will and the death of the testator), it becomes a material inquiry, how far the jurisdiction and doctrines of the court of chancery respecting...

...death of the testator, there is an interval of only five years, bnt I have had many cases in which, between the making of the will and the death of the testator, there has boen an interval of twenty or thirty years. A man may add a great deal to an estate during...

...not a lapsed legacy. A legacy is said to be lapsed where the devisee dies in the intermediate period between the making of the will and the death of the testator; but here the only existing person, capable of taking under this description in the will at the time...

...born after the testator's death are not entitled, the words " may be born" applying to the interval between the making of the will and the death of the testator. Starrs v. licnbou-, 1 Law J. (NS) Chanc. 201, sc 2 M. & K. 46. A testator bequeaths his residuary personal...

...but in contemplation of the possible event of its being reduced to a single object in the interval between the making of the will and the death of the testator. It is submitted, therefore, that the cases of Swaine v. Kennerley, and Hart v. Durand, may be considered...

...IV. 45 between a lapsed and a void devise. In the former case, the devisee dies in the intermediate time between the making of the will and the death of the testator ; but, in the latter case, the devise is void from the beginning, as if the devisee be dead when the...

...determining the validity and operation of a testamentary gift, regard cannot be had to events happening between the making of the will and the death of the testator ; or if there be a case which declares a trust for accumulation void for remoteness which is destructible...