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· 7/15/1897

In re Assigned Estate of Handy

Citations

  • 182 Pa. 68
  • 37 A. 854
  • 1897 Pa. LEXIS 771

Syllabus

<p>Will — Vested interest — Lien—Trust and trustees.</p> <p>Where a testator leaves his estate, consisting of real and personal property, in trust, and directs that after the death of his widow it shall be divided into four equal parts, leaving it absolutely to the discretion of the trustees as to how each one fourth part shall be made up, the beneficial owners of the respective parts have not, until the allotment is made, a vested interest in any part of the land, but a mere possibility or expectation, which is not the subject of lien.</p>

Judges: Dean, Fell, Green, Mitchell, Williams

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