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  2. Acts of independent significance - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Testamentary capacity - Wikipedia

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    This test is focussed on the ability of the particular individual and his particular estate. The outcome is always unique to the particular facts. Where the circumstances and assets of a testator are simple or straightforward the level of capacity required will be lower than that for the testator with complex circumstances and assets.

  4. DI Ray - Wikipedia

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    DI Ray (titled D.I. Ray in the United States and Canada) is a 2022 British police procedural television series. It was created and written by Maya Sondhi and produced by Jed Mercurio . DI Ray stars Parminder Nagra as detective inspector Rachita Ray in a fictitious Birmingham -based police force.

  5. Will and testament - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 19 January 2025. Legal declaration where a person distributes property at death "Last Will" redirects here. For the film, see Last Will (film). This article possibly contains original research. Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations. Statements consisting only of ...

  6. Residuary estate - Wikipedia

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    It is also known as a residual estate or simply residue. The will may identify the taker of the residuary estate through a residuary clause or residuary bequest . The person identified in such a clause is called the residuary taker , residuary beneficiary , residuary legatee , or residuary devisee . [ 2 ]

  7. Lapse and anti-lapse - Wikipedia

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    The modern view is that where a beneficiary was intended to inherit part of the residuary estate who predeceases the testator, and that beneficiary is not covered by the anti-lapse statute, then that beneficiary's inheritance will return to the residuary estate, to be inherited by the other beneficiaries to whom the residue has been willed.

  8. Testamentary disposition - Wikipedia

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    Life estate, [1] a concept used in common and statutory law to designate the ownership of land for the duration of a person's life Demonstrative legacy, a gift of a specific sum of money with a direction that is to be paid out of a particular fund

  9. The Freedom of the Will - Wikipedia

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    One of the authors that provoked the writing of The Freedom of the Will was Daniel Whitby.Whitby was an Arminian minister of the Church of England who was known for his anti-Calvinist viewpoint and his statement that “It is better to deny prescience [foreknowledge] than liberty.” [1] It is this claim that Edwards attempts to answer in The Freedom of the Will.