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Offline tsumi

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Universal Legatee,s
« on: Thursday 10 May 07 18:37 BST (UK) »
Has anyone any idea what a Universal Legatee is/ I was looking up a probate /will, from 1884 in Liverpool,and the following sentence was on the paragraph......name and address of the person granted administration and then this .............Bookkeeper to the son of one of the Universal Legatees. Many thanks
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Re: Universal Legatee,s
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 10 May 07 19:42 BST (UK) »
Hi tsumi
If you google Universal Legattee's comes up with sites that may be of some use to you

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Re: Universal Legatee,s
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 10 May 07 21:36 BST (UK) »
A universal legacy is a legacy of everything. "I leave everything I have to X" would be an example. X would be the universal legatee.

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Re: Universal Legatee,s
« Reply #3 on: Friday 11 May 07 06:48 BST (UK) »
Thank you very much for your input and knowledge.
Cheers Tsumi
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Re: Universal Legatee,s
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 13 October 22 07:52 BST (UK) »
Hi
Am wondering if the meaning of Universal Legatee is that simple.

Have a 1870 probate in which the two executors are referred to as the universal legatees and executors. Neither executors are beneficiaries.

The testator had devised and bequeathed everything to these two fellows. Then he says 'upon trust to sell and dispose of the same...' (being everything). Then he says 'I direct my trustees' to divide the proceeds between my sisters...

So it seems that they were only universal legatees in order to convert everything into cash so as to allocate the legacies.

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