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Testator's condition

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 245 U.S. 312 - Hull v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. · 1917Most cited · 38 citing opinions

avoidance of creditors

This is not a case where a testator seeks to bequeath property which shall be free from liability for the beneficiary's debts. Here the testator has merely prescribed the condition on which he will make a gift of the principal... The Bankruptcy Act presents no obstacle to carrying out the testator's intention.

How often courts cite the case defining “Testator's condition”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Testator's condition” — 38 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.