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Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
How to be construed, when used with respect to ownership of bank stock, in a statute regulating taxation, see Harrison v. Vines, 46 Tex. 15; Van Syke V. State, 23 Wis. 655. In speaking of the wife's share in the personal estate of her husband, the Illinois dower act means only such share as may be equal to one-third part of the whole estate.
Mc Murphy v. Coolbaugh, 49 lU. 110.
Meaning of share, as used in a will, speaking of a share in the estates, see De Nottebeck ».
Astor, 13 N. Y. 98; Genet ». Beekman, 27 Barb. 371; Parsons v. Lyman, 4 Bradf. 268.
Share and share alike. In wills, the expressions " equally to be divided," " share in common.
Gilpin v. Hollingsworth, 3 Md. 190.
Where testator bequeathed his property " upon trust, as to one moiety, to invest the same," &c., " to pay over the income thereof to M," " and, after her decease or marriage, to hold the same to the use of my grandchildren," " share and share alike, the income to be applied to their maintenance, and the capital to be paid to them as they respectively attain the age of twentyone years," it was held that the words " share and share alike " destroyed the joint tenancy which would otherwise ha,ve been presumed.
Provenchere's Estate, 1 I^eg. Gaz. Rep. 68.