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Cumulative legacy






Cumulative legacy

Accumulative legacy. An accumulative legacy is a second bequest given by the same testator to the same legatee, whether it be of the same kind of thing, as money, or whether it be of different things, as, one hundred dollars, in one legacy, and a thousand dollars in another, or whether the sums are equal or whether the legacies are of a different naturer.

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Legacy
A bequest or gift of goods or chattels by testament. This word, though properly applicable to bequests of personal estate only, has nevertheless been extended to property not technically within its import, in order to effectuate the intention of the testator, so as to include real property and annuities.

Second
A measure equal to one sixtieth part of a minute.

Bequest
A gift by last will or testament; a legacy.

Testator
One who has made a testament or will.

Legatee
A legatee is a person to whom a legacy is given by a last will and testament.

Money
Gold, silver, and some other less precious metals, in the progress of civilization and commerce, have become the common standards of value; in order to avoid the delay and inconvenience of regulating their weight and quality whenever passed, the governments of the civilized world have caused them to be manufactured in certain portions, and marked with a Stamp which attests their value; this is called money.

Things
By this word is understood every object, except man, which may become an active subject of right. Code du Canton de Berne, art. 332. In this sense it is opposed, in the language of the law, to the word persons.

Hundred
English law. A district of country originally comprehending one hundred families. In many cases, when an offence is committed within the -hundred, the inhabitants tire civilly responsible to the party injured.



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Cumul
The combination of contractual and extra-contractual recourses in a single claim or suit. “Cumul” is acceptable in common law jurisdictions. Civil law on the other hand usually resolves the tort/contract problems by prohibiting the “cumul” and usually imposing the contractual relationship.

Cumulative
Forming a heap

Cumulative sentences
Sentences for two or more crimes to run consecutively, rather than concurrently.



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Culprit
Criminal law. When a prisoner is arraigned, and he pleads not guilty, in the English practice, the clerk, who arraigns him on behalf of the crown, replies that the prisoner is guilty, and that he is ready to prove the accusation.

Cum onere
This term is usually employed to show that something is taken, subject to a charge or burden.

Cum pertinentis
With the appurtenances.

Cumul
The combination of contractual and extra-contractual recourses in a single claim or suit. “Cumul” is acceptable in common law jurisdictions. Civil law on the other hand usually resolves the tort/contract problems by prohibiting the “cumul” and usually imposing the contractual relationship.

Cumulative
Forming a heap

Cumulative legacy

Cumulative sentences
Sentences for two or more crimes to run consecutively, rather than concurrently.

Curable depreciation
Items of physical deterioration and functional obsolescence that are economically feasible to cure.

Curate
Ecclesiastical Iaw. One who represents the incumbent of a church, person, or20 vicar, and tades care of the church, and performs divine service in his stead.

Curator
Persons, contracts. One who has been legally appointed to take care of the interests of one who, on account of his youth, or defect of his understanding, or for some other cause, is unable to attend to them himself.

Curatorship
Offices, contracts, in the civil law. The power given by authority of law, to one or more persons, to administer the property of an individual who is unable to take care of his owu estate and affairs, either on account of his absence without an authorized agent, or in consequence of his prodigality, or want of mind.

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