Wills-Importance of bequests

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Member Since: February 2006 Posts: 0 Send Message	Jeannie	Report	28 Jul 2006 16:58
Member Since: February 2006 Posts: 0 Send Message	Good evening everyone Has anyone an idea, or opinion as to the value/importance of an item as to how 'close to the top' of the list of bequests it would come. I have a will from 1834, and although properties are at the top of the list, a named oil painting comes next, before monies, shares, investments, and all manner of stuff that sounds like it should have belonged to Galilleo!! I have looked this painting up on the web and it is now in a gallery in the US. I am wondering if he had the 'real' thing !! Oh how bl**dy ironic that would be. Rgds, Jeanne
Member Since: January 0001 Posts: 0 Send Message	Unknown	Report	28 Jul 2006 17:06
Member Since: January 0001 Posts: 0 Send Message	I don't have much experience of wills as my folks were never very well off! But the ones I've seen tend to dealwith specific items first and then the bulk of the estate. My mother-in-law's will made bequests of her jewellery and some sculptures she'd made (which hadn't been valued and so no worth apart from sentimental placed on them) and then her other property. nell
Member Since: February 2006 Posts: 0 Send Message	Jeannie	Report	28 Jul 2006 17:11
Member Since: February 2006 Posts: 0 Send Message	That would be the irony Helen - who sold the family silver!! LOL