Word: codicil
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wives of all the brothers Bott, Ernest's Milly was the only soft, plump, docile one. The other brothers pondered their wives' angles and acerbities, secretly envied Ernest. When he died leaving his fortune to the "Home for Fallen Women" and adding a codicil, "My wife will know why," the Bott brothers were incredulous, their wives smugly pleased...
...filed for probate last Tuesday in Duchess County, New York. The gift was among a number of bequests to charitable and educational institutions which totalled $2,250,000. Half of the gift to Harvard is to be added to the Endowment Fund, while $100,000 is given in a codicil without designating a specific purpose...
...codicil added to the original will, Prince Carol is cut off from the inheritance of any real estate but is bequeathed some 6,600,000 lei in cash ($400,000). Queen Marie of Jugoslavia cannot, as a foreign sovereign, own Rumanian real estate, and therefore was willed a legacy in cash and securities. The Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania will receive an income and the use of several palaces during life;" but the residual bulk of the king's fortune and estates was willed chiefly to King Michael? ($30,000,000), Princess Ileana and Prince Nicholas...
...codicil of King Ferdinand concluded: "I cannot close without remembering with all my heart my dear son Carol, for whom I wish a happy time in the new life which he has chosen against our wishes. ... I demand that he shall not return until all the constitutional authorities allow...
...This codicil, or "literary testament," as the Post called it, was submitted to the Probate Court but withdrawn after a "high personage in the political world" had advised that no considerations of whatever sort should be allowed to withdraw the veil of secrecy enshrouding the testament...