CERTAIN EVASIVE AND PROTECTIVE DEVICES AFFECTING SUCCESSION TO DECEDENTS' ESTATES

Authors

Alvin Evans, University of Kentucky

Abstract

In Anglo-American law for many generations the power of an owner of property to determine the disposal of his estate at death has met with but comparatively few limitations. The statute creating this power was motivated by the assumption that the interest of the owner, reaching even beyond death, is paramount to other social interests. This power is an important item in a capitalistic system. And even if he does not exercise his power, the decedent may rest assured that another statute will do for him approximately what he may be supposed to have desired.

Recommended Citation

Alvin Evans, CERTAIN EVASIVE AND PROTECTIVE DEVICES AFFECTING SUCCESSION TO DECEDENTS' ESTATES, 32 Mich. L. Rev. 478 (1934).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol32/iss4/4