Frost v. McCaulley’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
August 1951
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Most-quoted passages
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““The gift-to her of the principal, without the gift of the income, during the interval between the death of the testator and the expiration of ten years thereafter, would have made her share a contingent legacy, but the appropriation of the accruing interest during that interval for her benefit makes the gift, in substance, an absolute vested legacy, divided into two distinct portions or interests, for the purpose of postponing not the vesting but the possession only.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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