Cumulative legacies

These are legacies so called to distinguish them from legacies which are merely repeated. In the construction of testamentary instruments, the question often arises whether, where a testator has twice bequeathed a legacy to the same person, the legatee 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 the first, or as cumulative, i. e., additional. In determining this question, the intention of the testator, if it appears on the face of the instrument, prevails.

Wharton.