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They see no disgrace, perhaps, in participating in a voluntary alms, because it is voluntary, and, as such, cannot be regarded as the peculiar property of that numerous class who assert and maintain a life-interest in compulsory funds legally levied for their support.
Have ye any security to offer? any expectations? any legacies, as other folk have a life-interest in at present? No; neither of them had. So Jeremiah rejoined 'Then, I suppose, I mun do as thee dost, John, and take the security of character.
"In consideration of this marriage for Madame Bontems' vanity is not a little flattered by the notion of grafting the Bontems on to the genealogical tree of the Granvilles the aforenamed mother agrees to settle her fortune absolutely on the girl, reserving only a life-interest.
A standard should be set as to the condition and position of every house, and the number it might be allowed to accommodate. This would bring many dark things into the light of day, and I am afraid the reputation of many respectable people would suffer, and their pockets too, although they tell us that they "have but a life-interest" in the pestiferous places.
He had got his own property by an entail, and certainly never would have had an acre had his father been able to consume more than a life-interest. But he had denied that the property had done him any good, and was loud in declaring that the entail had done the property and those who lived on it very much harm.
She beautiful and penniless, ambitious, and a devotee of pleasure yet dependent for food and clothing upon her mother's life-interest in an estate, not one penny of which would revert to her children at her decease; without kindred and without society in the elegant suburb they had inhabited for four or five years, might have been elated at a less brilliant match than that she had made.
From contradictories: "If the head of a family has left to his wife in reversion after his son the life-interest in the female slaves, and has made no mention of any other reversionary heir, if the son dies, the woman shall not lose her life-interest.
A life-interest in a property is, perhaps, as much as a man desires to have when he for whose protection he is debarred from further privileges of ownership is a well-loved son; but an entail that limits an owner's rights on behalf of an heir who is not loved, who is looked upon as an enemy, is very grievous.
Gilbert said presently. "No one directly and immediately, except an old charwoman, who has a legacy of five-and-twenty pounds." "But there is some one else interested in an indirect manner I infer from your words?" "Yes. Mrs. Holbrook takes the whole of the personalty, but she has only a life-interest in the real estate.
It began with a long explanation of settlements of his property, in which he had been engaged since their departure. The chief feature in the business was that Mrs. Millborne found herself the absolute owner of a comfortable sum in personal estate, and Frances of a life-interest in a larger sum, the principal to be afterwards divided amongst her children if she had any.
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