15 Guam Code Ann. § 639
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- Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
- Probate: Proving a will
- Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.
A condition precedent in a will is one which is required to be fulfilled before a particular disposition takes effect. It is to be deemed performed when the testator‘s intention has been substantially, though not
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15 Guam Code Ann. ESTATES AND PROBATE
CH. 6 INTERPRETATION OF WILLS
literally, complied with. Nothing vests until such condition is fulfilled, except where fulfillment is impossible, in which case the disposition vests, unless the condition was the sole motive for the disposition and the impossibility was unknown to the testator or arose from an unavoidable event subsequent to the execution of the will.
SOURCE: Probate Code of Guam (1970), § 142.