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... leave his property to a charitable institution . It was proved that he had made other wills of a similar character , and that he had successively destroyed them as his mind changed in regard to minor details and distributions of the ...
... leave his property to a charitable institution . It was proved that he had made other wills of a similar character , and that he had successively destroyed them as his mind changed in regard to minor details and distributions of the ...
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... leave the school . In a second he had seated him before the open dictionary , and in another second he was kneeling at his own bedside . Hardly had he bowed his head when there came a rap at the door , the tutor entered , saw the ...
... leave the school . In a second he had seated him before the open dictionary , and in another second he was kneeling at his own bedside . Hardly had he bowed his head when there came a rap at the door , the tutor entered , saw the ...
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... leave a dinner - call overdue and unpaid , then is she shameless indeed . In this code Tristrem was necessarily learned . On returning to Fifth Avenue he had marvelled some- what at noting that laws which applied to one sex did not ...
... leave a dinner - call overdue and unpaid , then is she shameless indeed . In this code Tristrem was necessarily learned . On returning to Fifth Avenue he had marvelled some- what at noting that laws which applied to one sex did not ...
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... brought him , in which Miss Raritan said that her mother and herself were to leave in a day or two for the country , and could he not get her something to in rhyme by François Coppée , a copy of futile 44 Tristrem Varick .
... brought him , in which Miss Raritan said that her mother and herself were to leave in a day or two for the country , and could he not get her something to in rhyme by François Coppée , a copy of futile 44 Tristrem Varick .
Page 48
... leaving Miss Raritan , he had been irritated at himself . It seemed to him that when with her he was at his worst ; that he stood before her dumb for love , awkward , embarrassed , and ineffectual of speech . It seemed to him that he ...
... leaving Miss Raritan , he had been irritated at himself . It seemed to him that when with her he was at his worst ; that he stood before her dumb for love , awkward , embarrassed , and ineffectual of speech . It seemed to him that he ...
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Page 105 - No person having a husband, wife, child or parent, shall, by his or her last will and testament, devise or bequeath to any benevolent, charitable, literary, scientific, religious or missionary society, association or corporation, in trust or otherwise, more than one-half part of his or her estate, after the payment of his or her debts, and such devise or bequest shall be valid to the extent of one-half, and no more.
Page 106 - ... no such devise or bequest shall be valid in any will which shall not have been made and executed at least two months before the death of the testator.