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BEQUESTS TO CHARITY
APPEAL COURT VERDICT
LONDON, January 15.
The Appeal Court declared invalid a charity bequest of £262,906 which has already been distributed to more than 130 charities.
The next of kin of the late Caleb Diplock, of Sussex, appealed against a decision by Mr.. Justice Farwell that a bequest of the residue of his £500,000 estate for distribution to such "charitable or benevolent object or objects" as the executors might select was valid. The appellants contended that inclusion of the words "or benevolent" rendered the bequest invalid. The Master of Rolls, though allowing the appeal, did not agree that benevolent meant the same as charitable.
The executors are stated to have issued a large number of writs in an attempt to recover the money distributed to the charities. The Master of the Rolls, in his judgment, said that what had happened after the death of the testator was entirely irrelevant for the purposes of the case.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 14, 17 January 1941, Page 11
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