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Definition of Glenorchy V. Bosville

((1733), Cas. temp. Talbot, 3). Executory trusts are construed so as best to carry out the testator’s general intention. Pershall devised real estates to trustees upon trust, upon the happening of the marriage of his granddaughter Arabella, to convey the said estates with all convenient speed to the use of the said Arabella for life, remainder to her husband for life, remainder to the issue of her body, with remainder over. Held, that though Arabella would have taken an estate tail had it been the case of an immediate devise, yet that the trust, being executory, was to be executed in a more careful and accurate manner, and that a conveyance to Arabella for life, remainder to her husband for life, with remainder to their first and every other son, with remainder to the daughters, would best serve the testator’s intent.

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Definition of Glenorchy V. Bosville is, temporally, from A Concise Law Dictionary (1927). This page needs to be proofread.

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