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The doctrine of acts of independent significance at common law permits a testator to effectively change the disposition of his property without changing a will, if acts or events changing the disposition have some significance beyond avoiding the requirements of the will. The doctrine is frequently applied under the following two circumstances:
Lapse and anti-lapse [1] are complementary concepts under the US law of wills, which address the disposition of property that is willed to someone who dies before the testator (the writer of the will).
A disposition in Scots law is a formal deed transferring ownership of corporeal heritable property. It acts as the conveyancing stage as the second of three stages required in order to voluntarily transfer ownership of land in Scotland.
A special power of appointment allows the recipient to distribute the designated property among a specified group or class of people, not including donee, donee's estate, creditors of donee, or creditors of donee's estate. [2] For example, a testator might grant his brother the special power to distribute property among the testator's three ...
Property or rights of a kind which can be the subject of a trust; A declaration of trust or disposition on trust by a person legally competent to create a trust; Certainty of property and objects (trust must be administratively workable) Compliance with requirements regarding evidence
A trust may be created by: (1) transfer of property to another person as trustee during the settlor's lifetime or by will or other disposition taking effect upon the settlor's death; (2) declaration by the owner of property that the owner holds identifiable property as trustee; or (3) exercise of a power of appointment in favor of a trustee. [76]
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Disposition (harpsichord), the set of choirs of strings on a harpsichord "Disposition" (song), a 2001 progressive metal song by Tool; Testamentary disposition, any gift of any property by a testator under the terms of a will "Disposition" (math), an uncommon way to refer to permutation of n elements over k positions.