105. Bequest to religious or charitable causes.
No person having a nephew or niece or any nearer relative shall have power
to bequeath any property to religious or charitable uses except by a will
executed not less than twelve months before his or her death and deposited
within six months from its execution in some place provided by law for the
safe custody of the wills of living persons.
PART XIII—VESTING OF LEGACIES.
106. Vesting of legacy when payment or possession postponed.
(1) Where, by the terms of a bequest, the legatee is not entitled to
immediate possession of the thing bequeathed, right to receive it at the proper
time shall, unless a contrary intention appears by the will, become vested in
the legatee on the testator’s death, and shall pass to the legatee’s
representatives if he or she dies before that time and without having received
the legacy; and in such cases the legacy is, from the testator’s death, said to
be vested in interest.
(2) An intention that a legacy to any person shall not become vested
in interest in him or her is not to be inferred merely from a provision by
which the payment or possession of the thing bequeathed is postponed, or by
which a prior interest in the legacy is bequeathed to some other person, or by
which the income arising from the fund bequeathed is directed to be
accumulated until the time of payment arrives, or from a provision that, if a
particular event shall happen, the legacy shall go over to another person.
107. Vesting when legacy contingent upon specified uncertain event.
(1) A legacy bequeathed in case a specified uncertain event shall
happen does not vest until that event happens.
(2) A legacy bequeathed in case a specified uncertain event shall not
happen does not vest until the happening of that event becomes impossible.
(3) In either case, until the condition has been fulfilled, the interest
of the legatee is called contingent.
(4) Notwithstanding subsections (1) and (2), where a fund is
bequeathed to any person upon his or her attaining a particular age, and the
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