Estate of Crooks
Citations
- 1 Myrick 247
Syllabus
<p>Jurisdiction to construe a will.—The Probate Court has jurisdiction to construe the language of a will so as to determine the proper persons or classes of persons to whom the estate shall be distributed and the character of the estate or interest such persons or classes of persons are to take therein, the decree of distribution being the charter by which they hold the property, and armed with which, they may apply to a general court of equity for aid or protection.</p> <p>Interpretation of words.—The words used in a bequest, “ to those of the before mentioned children who have attained the age of twenty-one years,” include only those children of such age at testator’s death; and those under that age at the date of the death are excluded.</p> <p>Construing sections, C. C„ 1336-7-41; C. C. P., 1665-6.</p>
How courts have described this case
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- “We may gather the intent of the legislature from the title of the act, and from the preamble.”
- “The very words of the act of 1775, requiring all deeds and conveyances to be recorded, are repeated without change in the act of 1893, so that the rule upon this subject continues unchanged.”
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