Cumulative Legacies
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
These are legacies so called todistinguish them from legacies which are merely repeated. In the construction of testamentary instruments, the question often arises whether, where a testutor has twice bequeathed a legacy to the sume person, the legutee is entitled to both, or only to one of them; in other words, whether the second legacy must be considered as a mere repetition of Lhe first, or as cumulative, 7. ¢., additional. In determining this question, the intention of the testator, if it appears on the face of the instrument, prevails.
Wharton.