, but is limited (by the word devise) to real estate.
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It would seem to follow that a legacy of all the money to the credit of the testator in a particular bank is a
specificlegacy.
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We emphasize that political actors acting in the context of specific legacies politicize social conflicts, alter which social conflicts have partisan relevance and even create important fault lines.
Specific legacies are liable to ademption where the specific thing perishes or ceases to belong to the testator, e.g.
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