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Household Stuff

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Words sometimes used in a will. Plate will pass under the term (2 Freem. Ch. 64), but not apparel, books, cattle, victuals, and choses in action, which do not fall within the natural meaning of the word, unless there be an intention manifest that they should pass.

15 Ves. 319.

Goods, as seven hundred beds in possession of testator for purposes of trade, do not pass under utensils of "household stuff." 2 P. Wms. 302! In general, "household stuff" will pass all articles which may be used for the convenience of the house. Swinb. Wills, pt.

7, § 10, p. 484.