Quickel v. Quickel’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
3
states following
April 1994
most recently cited
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on WACHOVIA BANK AND TRUST COMPANY v. Wolfe · Morris v. Morris · Wachovia Bank & Trust Co. v. Waddell · Taylor v. . Taylor · Carroll v. Herring
Most-quoted passages
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“[A]n unrestricted or general devise of real property, to which is affixed, either specifically or by implication, an unlimited power of disposition in the first taker, conveys the fee and a subsequent clause . . . purporting to dispose of what remains at his death is not allowed to defeat the devise or limit it to a life estate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[I]t is a general rule of testamentary construction that an unrestricted devise of real estate carries the fee, and a subsequent clause in the will expressing a wish, desire or even direction for the disposition of what , remains at the death of the devisee, is not allowed to defeat the devise, nor limit it to a life estate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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