WATSON v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““If the terms of the will show that testator contemplates some change in the form of the gift, or even a sale and reinvestment of the proceeds and that he intends to pass the proceeds, or the property in which the proceeds are reinvested, to the original beneficiary, full effect will be given to such provision. If the will provides that the devisee shall have a home upon the property which testator owns at his death, the sale of the farm which testator then owned, and the reinvestment of the proceeds in a house in town, does not operate as an ademption. * * * If testator gives the ‘proceeds’ of certain property, and it appears, from the terms of the will, that he gives such proceeds even if the property is sold in his lifetime, the beneficiary may have the proceeds as far as they can be traced.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. RIKARD v. Miller