Leahy v. Old Colony Trust Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• \A testamentary disposition becomes operative only upon and by reason of the death of the owner who makes it\ [citation omitted]
• “[I]t is settled that a power to revoke ‘during the lifetime’ of the settlor, which means by a revocation taking effect before the death of the settlor, cannot be exercised by a will that in the nature of things cannot take effect before the death of the testator”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).