The Law Reports (Chancery Division)
[1935] Ch 524
[CHANCERY DIVISION]
In re
EIGHMIE.
COLBOURNE
v.
WILKS.
[1927. E. 1495.]
1935 April 11.
EVE J.
Will
— Gift for maintenance of monument, burial ground, and churchyard
— Validity
— Legacy in foreign currency or equivalent in sterling
— Date for ascertaining rate of exchange
— Legacy Duty
— Claims to payment of duty out of funds in Court
—
Succession Duty Act, 1853 (16 & 17 Vict. c. 51), s. 53
—
Legacy Duty Act, 1796 (36 Geo. 3, c. 52), s. 25.