What is the testator's gift of residue in a will?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from Davison Estate, In re, 1919 CanLII 197 (SK CA):
Among the rules laid down in Jarman on Wills, supra, pp. 1042-3, is the following: The mere fact that the testator enumerates some specific things in the gift of residue (as “all my furniture, cattle, sheep and all my other personal estate”) does not make the gift of those things specific. citing In re Green; Baldock v. Green, 40 Ch. D. 610, 58 L.J. Ch. 157, and a number of other cases.
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