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You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail. Scrooge knew he was dead? Of course he did. How could it be otherwise? Scrooge and he were partners for I don't know how many years. Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend and sole mourner.
He could not recollect its title, but it had made a great impression upon him; nor yet could he recollect the author's name, but the book had made a great impression upon him; he could not remember even what else there was in the book; the only thing he knew was that it had made a great impression upon him. This is a good example of what is called a residuary impression.
The Christs in the two chapels are strikingly alike, and the general effect is that of a residuary impression left in the mind of one who had known the Varallo Flagellation exceedingly well. Sta. Veronica. This and the next succeeding chapels are the most important of the series.
"He still said, 'I appoint Miss Ernestine Bergot my residuary legatee'; but he had written underneath, 'on condition that she shall pay to each of my sisters the sum of a hundred and fifty thousand francs. This was more than three-fourths of his whole fortune. "When she arrived, therefore, that night, at Brevan's rooms, her first words were, "'We have been robbed! Planix was a wretch!
The second will was identical with the first in language except that its terms were reversed and instead of being the residuary legatee, Sanford was given a comparatively small annuity, and the Elmores were made residuary legatees instead of annuitants." "And who are these Elmores?" asked Kennedy curiously.
The entire property, with the exception of two hundred and fifty pounds, was, as before, bequeathed to Stephen, but the separate items were specified, and the testator's brother, John Blackmore, was named as the executor and residuary legatee." "I see," said Thorndyke. "So that your client's interest in the will would appear to be practically unaffected by the change." "Yes.
For they differ not only in form but in essence. The division of functions has given rise to much confusion and litigation; but, speaking generally, the trend of judicial decision has been towards a wide interpretation of the provincial powers. The "residuary powers" are in the Dominion Parliament.
When Hannibal had informed himself of the amount of the revenues arising from taxes and port duties, for what purposes they were issued from the treasury, what proportion of them was consumed by the ordinary expenses of the state, and how much was alienated by embezzlement; he asserted in an assembly of the people, that if payment were enforced of the residuary funds, the taxes might be remitted to the subjects; and that the state would still be rich enough to pay the tribute to the Romans: which assertion he proved to be true.
To oppress one's own workmen, and provide for the workmen of a neighbor to skin those in charge of one's own interests while cottoning and oiling the residuary product of another's skinnery that is not very good benevolence, nor very good sense, but it serves in place of both.
George as principal residuary legatee and so our long-suffering hero was once more placed upon his financial legs: the only way he could have been placed upon them or would have been placed upon them a fact very well known to every one who had tried to help him, his philosophy being that one dollar borrowed is two dollars owed the difference being a man's self-respect.
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