INHERITANCE LOST
WORD USED IN WILL The interpretation of the word "widow" lost .a woman an inheritance in the?* Chancery Division, London. The case arose because Mr. Charles Henry Goodwin Norman left one-half of his residuary estate to a daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Esther Bethune Cozens, of Berkhamsted, Herts, on trust. If/Mrs. Cozens became a widow and had no children, the money was to become hers absolutely. In 19.M6 Mrs. Cozens divorced her husband, and he died last year. Mr. Justice Simonds ruler! that at the time Mr. Cozens died he was not Mrs. Cozens' husband. It was impossible, lie said, that she became his widow.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23601, 9 March 1940, Page 2 (Supplement)
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105INHERITANCE LOST New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23601, 9 March 1940, Page 2 (Supplement)
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