...1855, the fund went to the testator's next of kin. The act provides that the invalid bequest shall "go to the residuary legatee or devisee, next of kin or heirs, according to law." Here there is no residuary clause disposing of the fund bequeathed to charity, and hence It goes to...

...and conveyances, not of distribution of decedents' estates, testate or intestate; and the expression "go to the residuary legatee, or devisee, next of kin, or heirs, according to law," means to one or the other, as the case may be under the existing law of distribution. Gray's Estate,...

...charitable uses, except the same be done by deed or will, attested by two credible, and at the same time, disinterested witnesses, at least one calendar month before the decease of the testator or allenor; and all dispositions of property contrary hereto, shall be void and go to the residuary legatee...

...§ 11, the ultimate remainder, which otherwise would have gone to Bishop Wood, in trust, etc., went "to the residuary legatee or devisee, next of kin, or heirs, according to law." There being no residuary legatee other than Bishop Wood, the remainder in question passed under the...

...person, In trust for religious, or charitable uses, except the same be done by deed or will * • • at least one calendar month before the decease of the testator or alienor: provided, that any disposition of property within said period bona flde made for a valuable consideration...

...for religious or charitable uses, except the same be done by deed or will attested by two credible and at the time disinterested witnesses at least one...before the decease of the testator or alienor, and that all dispositions of property contrary thereto should be void and go to the residuary legatee or...

...conveyance for religious or charitable uses is void unless done by deed or will attested by two credible and, at the time, disinterested witnesses, at least...month before the decease of the testator or alienor. Act of 1855, Purd. Dig. 252. Under this statute a testator may provide that a subsequent will shall...

...any person in trust for religious and charitable uses, except the same be done by deed or will, etc., at least one calendar month before the decease of the testator or alienor," and A, having made a will whereby she bequeathed legacies to charities, on finding her death imminent,...

...to reduce the aggregate thereof to one third of such estate; and all dispositions of property made contrary hereto shall be void, and go to the residuary...devisee, next of kin, or heirs, according to law." A subsequent act passed in 1881 vests important discretionary powers in county and city authorities...

...the express terms of the^statute these could only be made by ' deed or will attested .by two credible and, at the time, disinterested witnesses, at least...month before the decease of the testator or alienor." The wording, and the manifest purpose of the statute make the execution and attestation precede the...